Plain Talk about the Protestantism of To-Day

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: as I was, finds it a very hard work to become even a passable Catholic. Were we not following close the Protestant ministers, and were we not reading their writings, we would scarcely believe the religious nothingness which lies concealed nnder the convenient cloak of Protestantism. The unprincipled Eugene...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: as I was, finds it a very hard work to become even a passable Catholic. Were we not following close the Protestant ministers, and were we not reading their writings, we would scarcely believe the religious nothingness which lies concealed nnder the convenient cloak of Protestantism. The unprincipled Eugene Sue exclaimed with great truth, on the sight of this facility, that the surest means to unchristianize Europe was to Protestantize it. VIII. Protestantism is Separated From The Church By An Abyss. ? The agent of Protestant propagandism generally opens his way to an unsophisticated and ignorant mind with the remark, that Protestant or Catholic, it is almost all the same And Catholics are to be found who echo this blasphemy, without the least thought that thereby they offer a grave insult to the Church, their mother. You say Protestantism, with its myriads of subdivisions, is about the same as the Catholic Church Do you understand yourself ? You might as well say that counterfeit money is about as valuable as good coin. Where the Church affirms, the Protestant denies; where the Church teaches, the Protestant revolts. In the Catholic Church, the unity of faith, worship, and religion, is fundamental and perfect. Among the Protestants, every man believes as he chooses, and acts as he believes: theirs is religious anarchy, an opposition to unity. They agree on only one point, ? hatred of Catholicity. The distinct, infallible teachings of the Church are the rule of faith for a Catholic. The Protestant rejects the Church, despises her authority, and takes for his guidance only the Bible, which he interprets as he best may, or as he chooses. The Catholic reveres the Pope as the vicar of Jesus Christ, the head of the faithful, the chief pastor, the infallible do...