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As only my luck would have it, I seem to have a knack for finding radical anti-Catholic commentators simply by listening to my local Christian radio station. That is, my local AM Christian radio station.

Just check out this statement from Southwest Church Ministry, which may be located online at: swrc.com/qanda/catholicism.htm

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Roman Catholicism: The Most Primitive Form of Christianity?** [B]Dr. Larry Spargimino said:
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Question:
I have a friend who is a Roman Catholic. He claims that the Roman Catholic Church teaches the doctrines of the early church, and that Catholicism is the most primitive form of Christianity. He says that the Protestant Reformation began 1,500 years after Christ and that it represents the doctrines of men. Is he correct?

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Both Scripture and church history teach that your friend is in error, though his argument is a common one. The Protestant Reformers sought to recover Biblical Christianity in its purest form and to remove the additions of the past.

Many of the doctrines distinctive to Roman Catholicism have evolved over many centuries. In fact, many important Catholic doctrines were officially adopted by the Church after the Reformation. In 1854, for example, Pope Pius IX finalized the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary. In 1950, Pope Pius XII established the doctrine of the Assumption of Mary.****

Sigh. Why am I finding so much of this stuff lately? Should I write this Noah Hutchings guy and correct him? Would anyone else care to address this site? Oh…I don’t know if it would even make a difference.

I hope to hear from you soon.

Pax Christi,

Thom**
 
It is frustrating, especially when they hide behind the façade of historical revisionism. No, in this case, you can’t make a difference, because the web site has no place where such foolish assertions can be challenged. And even if it did, no Protestant run discussion board will give any Catholic justice. I hope this “Dr.” Larry joins the other 1500 Protestant ministers and scholars who have come home to the Catholic Church in the past 8 years. Lets pray that he does.

The deformers sought reform from without, as true reform is from within. His comments reflect total ignorance as to the meaning of the development of doctrine, and to say the Pope Pius XII established the doctrine of the Assumption of Mary is a very clear example of such profound ignorance. The 8th commandment says, “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.”, and I think Larry knows better than that.

Since they are justified by faith alone, false teachers like “Dr.” Larry have no qualms about misrepresenting Catholicism and about distorting the facts of history. I know of no Pope, Apostle, bishop, priest, deacon, saint, or martyr over a 2000 year period who ever had to resort to this kind of tactic the way so many of our ‘separated bretheren’ do. We put out the olive branch to them in the encyclical “Unum Sint”, and if they refuse it, I say leave it alone and let God deal with them.

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SIGH!!! is right!

Well, it seems to me that the attacks are getting more and more ridiculous. Maybe that’s a good thing - the last gasps of desperate fools, so to speak. Protestants are coming home in droves because they’re finding out the historical truth and then realizing the mystical truth.

At least we know they’re making the whole thing up, and anyone who’s interested can find the right answers pretty easily.
 
Where I live here in Central oklahoma we have only a “part-time” Catholic radio station 890 A.M. What this means is you could hear
Anti-Catholic radio program an hour before Catholic Answers Live
on the same radio station. The outright distortions can make you angry so I usually change the channel. I once heard a show an hour before EWTN’s “WEB OF FAITH” hosted by someone who was a follower of Francis Scheaffer who maid wild charge that
St. Thomas Aquinas threw out Bible as the Word of God and replaced it with Reason which led us to the moral relativness we have today. Of course this is a very distorted reading of Aquinas. I heard a similar show on “Purgatory” carried nationwide which two Protestants debated the merits of the Catholic doctrine of Purgatory. Gee, what a fair debate. One went so far as to quote the CCC (1031) to show the doctrines medieval origins. When I went back and read the same section I discovered the reason they stopped reading there and didn’t continue into 1032.
 
I just don’t get it. They seem to believe that Christ and the Holy Spirit both failed miserably for 1500 years, until Martin Luther came along amd made things right. History means nothing, and what many learn of it seems to be revisionist history.
 
We may be witnessing in our age the complete disintegration of Protestantism.

I wouldn’t be surprised if by 2050 the ‘mainline’ protestant demoninations either cease to exist entirely or exist in name only. The logical end of the ‘external reformation.’

The Church has, does and will continue to provide a refuge for those seeking to escape the chaos.

Best wishes.
 
I live in a city where there is no Catholic radio at all. It saddens me when I listen to the Christian programs and hear the distortions and know that there are vulnerable Catholics who hear this and are shaken in their belief in the One True Church. For many years I didn’t know and understand the history of Catholicism and fell prey to the reasonableness of Protestant arguements against it. They seemed to know so much that refuted everything I knew about the doctrines of the Church. It has taken much study on my part to learn the truth. Unfortunately, not many Catholics will take the time to look into these misrepresentations and find the truth and are therefore led astray. As for those who would undermine Catholic teaching, there is really nothing for us to do but pray for them. The truth is there for them to find; many of them study the Catholic faith in order to cast doubt on believers. Why the Holy Spirit does not open their hearts to that truth is beyond my understanding. But, we must trust that the Lord knows what HE is doing and pray for them.
 
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Kecharitomene:
As only my luck would have it, I seem to have a knack for finding radical anti-Catholic commentators simply by listening to my local Christian radio station. That is, my local AM Christian radio station.

Just check out this statement from Southwest Church Ministry, which may be located online at: swrc.com/qanda/catholicism.htm

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Sigh. Why am I finding so much of this stuff lately? Should I write this Noah Hutchings guy and correct him? Would anyone else care to address this site? Oh…I don’t know if it would even make a difference.

I hope to hear from you soon.

Pax Christi,

Thom
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The big threat is that many Christians are discovering the Early Christian writings, and they do not match up with Protestant or any other non-Catholic theology. They only support Catholic theology and belief. As more and more non-Catholic Christians become less and less ignorant of Early Church history the more the non-Catholic Christian communities become threatened. The Immaculate Conception is but one example. It is also found in writings and liturgies and Church Councils from the 1400’s the 800’s and the 400’s. Does our understanding of Doctrine develop? Yes of course it does just as our human understanding of any number of things does. But will two plus two equal anything but four? No, however our understanding of math and quantum physics does change.
 
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