I volunteered to help with the RCIA program this year. I find myself so frustrated. I do not impose my will or butt heads with anyone. I am quiet and respectful. I never would challenge another teacher in front of students. I am getting very frustrated.
Last night the subject was church history. As usual in my Diocese the study started off with comments like ‘We’re not proud of the crusades” or “We know there were evil Popes” and when we reached Martin Luther it was as if he were a great hero that saved us all.
I am so tired of getting the World’s view of the Church and apologizing for being the Church Christ founded. What about all the great things we gave the world?
I am deciding whether to peacefully quit form the program or taking the teacher aside and letting him know how I feel.
Any thoughts?
Except for Martin Luther they sound pretty accurate. Of course old Martin is often held up as a model of some sort, primarily because protestants hold him in such esteem.
His, Luther, supporters always bring up the issue of indulgences as if that was the only thing that Luther attacked.
Nothing could be further from the truth. A few of Luthers more expressive comments:
I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.
I saw clearly that the papacy was to be understood as the kingdom of Babylon and the regime of Nimrod the mighty hunter.
Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth.
You owe God nothing more than to believe, and to confess. In everything else he gives you your freedom,- you can do what you wish without any peril to your conscience. He who believes that Christ has taken away his sins is as sinless as Christ.’
If there were no other evil wiles to prove the pope the true Antichrist, yet this one thing were enough to prove it. Hearest thou this, O pope, not most holy, but most sinful? O that God from heaven would soon destroy thy throne and sink it in the abyss of hell!
**O Christ, my Lord, look down, let the day of thy judgment break, and destroy the devil’s nest at Rome! **
Of the sensual papistical dolts at Rome, cardinals, bishops, priests and the like, it is not necessary to speak here. Their works are manifest. All honorable secular authorities must confess they are simply abandoned knaves, living shameless lives of open scandal, avarice, arrogance, unchastity, vanity, robbery and wickedness of every kind. Not only are they guilty of such living, but shamelessly endeavor to defend their conduct. They must, then, be regarded enemies of Christ and of all honesty and virtue.
Luther wanted and desired nothing more or less than the destruction of the Catholic Church in general and the Papacy in particular. Anyone who thinks differently and believes that Luther was a hero of some sort has been grossly misguided by the supporters of revisionist history.
Maybe I should start posting a few of his quotations from time to time so that those who fall for the catechists claims that Luther only wanted what was good for the Church can see what the man was really all about.
