St. Justin Martyr

First or Only? (the battle between the ordinal and the cardinal in the Reformation)

As this year marks 500 years since the excommunication of Martin Luther in 1521 – a declaration that still resonates today – I decided to reread the documents of that belated and belabored answer to Luther’s claims, the Catholic Church’s Council of Trent (1545-63). As I read, I was struck by a seldom-commented feature of […]