Pope Francis visited Sweden this week during the celebration of the Reformation’s 500th year to promote “efforts to heal the 500-year-old rift between Catholics and Protestants” (Wall Street Journal, October 30, 2016). While the Pope praised some of Martin Luther’s actions (which led to the split between Catholics and Protestants), he focused on “moving beyond the controversies and disagreements” and illustrated the need for unification.

As Germany stations tanks in Lithuania to “reinforce the Baltic states” against potential Russian aggression (Deutsche Welle, October 27, 2016), and Russia unveils its newest ICBM, the Satan 2, “capable of wiping out parts of the earth the size of Texas or France” (CNN, October 26, 2016), a new poll reveals that 32 percent of Germans “believe it is possible that war could bre