Dublin is taking heart at the level of alarm exhibited by the DUP at the Conservative Party conference

From new acts to old favourites, here are the most exciting shows at this year’s festival

Committed to finding truth? Then ‘seek out the best representatives of positions you disagree with’

An academic has illuminated the world-shaping and often invisible issues with tech

500 years after Luther, churches must bear shared witness to unbelieving world

On Tuesday Protestantism marks 500 years as a distinct strand of Christianity

US president shares many of the traits of the man who led Germany into war, says historian

Was it just a watershed moment, predetermined by what had gone before?

For a group dealing with illness and death, music that probes mortality, resurrection and consolation is just what the doctors ordered

Ireland is anomalous in Europe as the only country not to follow the religion of its ruler

The Reformation’s spread shows the importance of media in changing the world

The film director, a friend and confidant of the chancellor, describes her as ‘authentic’

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Wittenberg is spending €50m to mark the theologian’s protest 500 years ago

Despite denouncing Stockhausen as a charlatan, Brian Boydell was no traditionalist. And Salvatore Sciarrino at Silenzio further cements Louth Contemporary Music Festival’s reputation

The priest was reared Protestant and converted to Catholism when he was 35-years-old

Ecumenical ceremony leaves Fr John Sullivan a miracle away from canonisation

Understanding Luther can help overcome ‘rivalry between Catholics and Protestants’

‘German Messi’ is fighting a a muscle disorder which can cause fatigue and weight gain

Ireland’s image as rebel nation where each Catholic suspected of treason persisted for hundreds of years

Most of us would happily have exchanged places with our classmate the Protestant

Theologians of all denominations agree church division need never have happened

Alone in northern Europe, Ireland remained Catholic following Luther’s revolution

Historic ecumenical service in Lund anticipates 500th anniversary of Reformation

Ecumenical commemorations are part of marking the anniversary of the Reformation

Pope should revoke ancient designation of Christ Church as Dublin’s cathedral

Democratising power of social media allows them to contribute to interpretation of their ancestors’ history, Michael Collins finds on his Diaspora Run in Canada

St Anthony’s relics will tour Ireland from June 9th

Renaissance man meets Renaissance woman

Pontiff will travel to Lund, Sweden, for ecumenical commemoration

How many of season’s traditions took root in dear old Deutschland? Yule be surprised!

What Manning did was to help shine a light on how wars like that in Iraq help fuel fundamentalism

Derek Scally: former German chancellor, who has died at 96, commanded huge respect

Inspections introduced after balcony collapse unearths problems in other buildings

The artist’s intriguing ‘La Bocca della Verità’ sells for a record price at Sotheby’s

The starting point should not be to ask who is to blame but what is likely to work

Could it be that the Reformation was not about God at all, but about human beings?

Johann Gutenberg, the inventor of printing, was last century’s ‘Man of the Millennium’

Whistleblowing is a form of disobedience ‘well suited to a society in which our lives are shaped by mammoth, impersonal, bureaucratic institutions,’ says political scientist Bill Scheuerman

Given all the historical and religious baggage, it’s perhaps no surprise that Berliners have a complex, often contradictory relationship with their food