[ebb tide]

The Vatican office charged with issuing stamps, known as the Philatelic and Numismatic Office, confirmed Tuesday to LifeSiteNews that Luther, who broke away from the Catholic Church in a schism 500 years ago, will be celebrated with a postage stamp in 2017.

[353FMG]

Any stamps for Calvin and Zwingly?

[StoneWall Brigade]

Ping

[MeanWestTexan]

I guess Hitler was not available, so they went with the antisemite who inspired Hitler.

[BlessedBeGod]

[2ndDivisionVet]

[NoKoolAidforMe]

Is there anyone in the Vatican who has a pair of balls and is willing to remind this asshat pope that he is Catholic? WTF?

Psalm 109:8 Let his days be few; Let another take his office.

[Cicero]

Pope Francis probably admires Luther because he left the Church and married a Nun. A pioneer in the violation of marriage and family.

[drewh]

[karnage]

Why?

[grania]

Will they set up a post office in the Vatican's McDonalds to sell it?

You'd think the Church hierarchy would've had it with the faux Pope by now.

[colorado tanker]

It’s rather unfair to lay all the damage of the 30 Years War on Luther. It began as a religious war but quickly degenerated into competition by the great powers of the day for domination of Europe. By the end of the War it was Hapsburgs down and France and Sweden up.

[Celtic Conservative]

Anathema.

CC

[niteowl77]

This one will be a “baby step” compared to what he plans to do down the road.

[Secret Agent Man]

As a former Catholic and current LCMS Lutheran, I am not jazzed about this in any way.

He is really trying hard to get liberal lutheran denominations back on board in some sycretistic/unionistic false unity drive.

The differences in beliefs are not trivial. Luther was reluctant to leave but the differences on core issues is not reconciliable. Can have fake unity but not real unity.

Many of the recent popes had no problem with kumbaya unity.

[Salvation]

Ridiulous.

[piusv]

Luther, who broke away from the Catholic Church in a schism 500 years ago, will be celebrated with a postage stamp in 2017.

And not Our Lady of Fatima.

[DesertRhino]

Luther wasn’t a nice guy. And he would likely reject 3/4 of everything today that is called protestant. But without him and the reforms that the Roman church adopted afterwards, they would have likely become less and less relevant and wound up as some failed version of the church.
They lost a lot of their corruption after him, though no one alive will apparently admit it.

The modern RCC is a very much better thing that it was before Luther.

[BlatherNaut]

Another fitting Bergoglio-themed stamp image:

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Would you touch that with your tongue?
Luther’s letters reveal he had some pretty intense disorders (of the scatalogic variety). http://www.academia.edu/1016951/German_Hercules_The_Impact_of_Scatology_on_the_Image_of_Martin_Luther_as_a_Man_1483-1546

[boatbums]

If Charlie Chaplain or the fall of the Berlin wall can qualify for a Vatican stamp, there’s no reason Martin Luther shouldn’t be. He IS a saint, after all.