Uh-what does that have to do with faith and Morals?
Too many changes and you lose your identity, your faith, and morals.
"The key-word that describes the doctrine of Roman Catholics is: CHANGE
Pre-Roman Catholic--------- teachings
200 AD
Immersion of infants who are dying, but considered sinless. (Tertullian V.12)
250 AD
North Africa region is first to practice infant baptism and reduced the age of baptism from minors to all newborns. This is opposed by other regions.
257 AD
Baptism by sprinkling for adults instead of immersion first used as an exception for those on sick beds, but it caused great dispute.
300 AD
Prayers for the dead
320 AD
Special dress code of the clergy in worship
325 AD
At the general council of Nice, 325, it was proposed indeed, probably by the Western bishop Hosius, to forbid entirely the marriage of priests; but the motion met with strong opposition, and was rejected.
325 AD
The date for Easter was set.
379 AD
Praying to Mary & Saints. (prayers of Ephraim Syrus)
385 AD
In the West, the first prohibition of clerical marriage, which laid claim to universal ecclesiastical authority, proceeded in 385 from the Roman church in the form of a decretal letter of the bishop Siricius to Himerius, bishop of Tarragona in Spain.
389 AD
Mariolatry begins with Gregory Nazianzen, who mentions in a eulogy, how Justina had besought the virgin Mary to protect her virginity.
400 AD
Impossibility of apostasy or once saved always saved, (Augustine XII.9)
416 AD
Infant baptism by immersion commanded of all infants (Council Of Mela, Austin was the principal director)
430 AD
Exhalation of Virgin Mary: “Mother of God” first applied by the Council of Ephesus
502 AD
Special dress code of the Clergy all the time.
500 AD
The “Habit” of Nuns (Black gowns with white tunics)
519 AD
Lent
526 AD
Extreme Unction
593 AD
The Doctrine of Purgatory popularized from the Apocrypha by Gregory the Great
600 AD
First use of Latin in worship (Gregory I)
Beginning of the Orthodox/Roman Catholic church as we know it today in its present organization.
607 AD
First Pope: Boniface III is the first person to take the title of “universal Bishop” by decree of Emperor Phocas.
608 AD
Pope Boniface IV. turns the Pantheon in Rome into a temple of Mary ad martyres: the pagan Olympus into a Christian heaven of gods.
670 AD
Instrumental music: first organ by Pope Vitalian
709 AD
Kissing of Pope Constantine’s feet
753 AD
Baptism by sprinkling for those on sick beds officially accepted.
787 AD
Worship of icons and statue approved (2nd council of Nicea)
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