“It's just another squabble between monks,” the pope is supposed to have said when he first heard about the argument that broke out in 1517 at a university in Germany. But one of those monks, Martin Luther, turned out to be pretty stubborn. The squabble he started—the Reformation, whose 500th anniversary we mark this year—deeply undermined the power of the papacy and set forces in motion that continue to shape our lives to this day, perhaps nowhere more so than in America.
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