Word: protestantitis
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It was the Church's pragmatic departure from the orthodoxy of Paul and Augustine that gave the leaders of the Protestant Reformation their main theological ammunition against Rome. This Protestant return to Augustinianism, writes Anglican Hardman, led Rome to make "a verbal compromise which suggested the retention of the...
...Catholics, the second to Catholics, and the third to Protestants. The first proposition is that there is an unfortunate inclination in the human heart, which Christians should, but have not, mastered, to be more concerned with the sins of others than with our own sins. ... A good deal of Protestantism is little more than anti-Catholicism; and Catholicism is very fond of historical theories which ascribe all the ills of our generation to the destruction of a Catholic civilization by the force of the Protestant Reformation and modern secularism...
The Catholic Error. ". . . Catholic bishops have the practice of rushing to the public and to print, every time Protestants call attention to some form of official Catholic intolerance, with the assertion that it is Christ Himself who is under attack, and that only disloyalty to Christ could have prompted the...
Then came a surprise. Said 60-year-old General Lee, with stern modesty: "I hope to give my abilities, such as they are, to the church of which I am a member." Correspondents knew that General Lee, an Episcopalian, kept a Bible on his desk and another in his briefcase...
...tendency." If he felt like a pagan, he still acted like a Protestant; he carried a pocket Bible everywhere with him. But he was always seesawing between the assurances of prayer and the doubts of spiritual confusion. Twenty-one years later, he confided to his journal: "Catholicism is inadmissible. Protestantism is intolerable. And I feel profoundly Christian. . . . From day to day I put off and carry a little farther into the future my prayer: may the time come when my soul, at last liberated, will be concerned only with...