Immigrants and L.G.B.T.Q. people were among those who saw Pope Francis as a force for change, offering a more welcoming ...

Francis promoted interfaith relations, and his popularity in the United States extended beyond Catholics, including to liberal Protestants who saw him as a moral guide. “I like the man very much ...

For centuries, the Catholic Church straddled the world of medieval Europe. Every king ... England and launched a systematic persecution of Protestants. At her death in 1558, her half-sister ...

Henry VIII was brought up as a devout Catholic ... across Europe, a new religious belief system was emerging: Protestantism, led by people like John Calvin and Martin Luther. The Protestant ...

The 16th century saw the start of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. These Protestant ideas ... that separated the Church in England from the Catholic Church, and made Henry VIII the head ...