500 years after Martin Luther's excommunication: A chance for ecumenical Christianity

The first major schism of the Catholic Church was made official in 1521. The pope excommunicated the initiator of the Reformation, Martin Luther. He had referred to the pontiff as the 'Antichrist.'

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