Lutherans and Catholics share the creeds, infant baptism, a liturgy descended from the medieval Mass, and belief that Christ’s body and blood are truly present in the bread and wine. They parted in the 1500s over how a sinner is made right with God and over authority: Scripture alone, or Scripture and Tradition as taught by the pope and bishops. The quarrel began with words, and some of the healing has too. In 1530 Luther’s followers set out their faith…

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