Source: Good News Network
35 years ago today, Catholic John Paul II made a “historic religious breakthrough” when he became the first pope to speak at a Lutheran church and called for healing the 462-year-old dispute between the two Christian denominations. The visit came during the observance of the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s birth—the Roman Catholic monk who led the Protestant reformation after nailing his grievances to a door and being excommunicated for questioning his faith’s doctrine… (1983)
“The gift of this meeting moved me profoundly,” said the pontiff, who is recognized as helping to end Communist rule in his native Poland. The conservative leader significantly improved the Catholic Church’s relations with Judaism, Islam, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Communion, and hoped to “bring together Jews, Muslims and Christians in a great religious armada.
”MORE Good News on this Date:
- Max Born, a German physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics and won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics for his “statistical interpretation of the wave function,” was born (1882)
- Poet Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts (1830)
- UNICEF was established by the UN as an Emergency Fund to…
The post Good News in History, December 11 appeared first on FeedBox.