Vatican backs plan to name Rome Square after Martin Luther [CH-UK]

[7_Sorrows]

Why does Rome want to name a square after Martin Luther to begin with? As far as I know, there’s no significant Lutheran population in Italy. Plus, Luther was a bigot who hated Catholics, Anabaptists, and especially Jews.

I don’t understand either.

 

[Memaw]

Why does Rome want to name a square after Martin Luther to begin with? As far as I know, there’s no significant Lutheran population in Italy. Plus, Luther was a bigot who hated Catholics, Anabaptists, and especially Jews.

Look on the bright side. Maybe many of the protestant visitors will visit St. Peter’s and some of the other Catholic shrines, Who knows what kind of an effect it will have on their spiritual life. I had a friend who was VERY anti-Catholic all his life,( his father was an anti-Catholic preacher), but after visiting Rome and the Vatican (in his 50’s) he started to change his attitude. He once told me he liked me in spite of the fact that I was Catholic, I told him I liked him in spite of the fact that he wasn’t. He actually asked for a priest before he died!!! God works in mysterious ways!! God Bless, Memaw

 

[Memaw]

This article doesn’t make any sense, because the place in question, Oppian Hill, is a part of the city of Rome and has nothing to do with the Vatican. Therefore, I do not think that the Vatican had any say in the matter, let alone would it.

May God bless you all abundantly and forever!

Look on the bright side. Maybe many of the protestant visitors will visit St. Peter’s and some of the other Catholic shrines, Who knows what kind of an effect it will have on their spiritual life. I had a friend who was VERY anti-Catholic all his life,( his father was an anti-Catholic preacher), but after visiting Rome and the Vatican (in his 50’s) he started to change his attitude. He once told me he liked me in spite of the fact that I was Catholic, I told him I liked him in spite of the fact that he wasn’t. He actually asked for a priest before he died!!! God works in mysterious ways!! God Bless, Memaw

 

[R_H_Benson]

A square named after the most notorious heretic in history in the heart of the See of Peter, in the very shadow of the Coliseum where so many Catholics went to their deaths, with the enthusiastic consent of the Vatican? Just more blurring of the lines between Catholicism and Protestantism in the name of “dialogue”. This is an insult to the very Petrine Office itself, to all Catholics, and particularly to the Martyrs who shed their blood for the Church of Jesus Christ - not for the ecclesial community of Martin Luther (indeed, who would have been willingly martyred AGAIN before submitting to Luther’s heresies, just as they were willing in the early centuries of the Church!) - on the sand of the Coliseum.

 

[7_Sorrows]

A square named after the most notorious heretic in history in the heart of the See of Peter, in the very shadow of the Coliseum where so many Catholics went to their deaths, with the enthusiastic consent of the Vatican? Just more blurring of the lines between Catholicism and Protestantism in the name of “dialogue”. This is an insult to the very Petrine Office itself, to all Catholics, and particularly to the Martyrs who shed their blood for the Church of Jesus Christ - not for the ecclesial community of Martin Luther (indeed, who would have been willingly martyred AGAIN before submitting to Luther’s heresies, just as they were willing in the early centuries of the Church!) - on the sand of the Coliseum.

You make many good points.

 

[Memaw]

A square named after the most notorious heretic in history in the heart of the See of Peter, in the very shadow of the Coliseum where so many Catholics went to their deaths, with the enthusiastic consent of the Vatican? Just more blurring of the lines between Catholicism and Protestantism in the name of “dialogue”. This is an insult to the very Petrine Office itself, to all Catholics, and particularly to the Martyrs who shed their blood for the Church of Jesus Christ - not for the ecclesial community of Martin Luther (indeed, who would have been willingly martyred AGAIN before submitting to Luther’s heresies, just as they were willing in the early centuries of the Church!) - on the sand of the Coliseum./QUOTE)

It’s NOT on Vatican property, Rome doesn’t belong to the Church and I wouldn’t call the Vatican response enthusiastic at all. I think your making a mountain out of a molehill. Rome has to take care of it’s own problems. They probably want the tourist money. God Bless, Memaw

 

[TMC]

I don’t understand the continued hostility on this forum towards Martin Luther (and sometimes toward Lutherans). Pope Benedict has often spoken well of Luther, and the Church is ready to move on, but some Catholics apparently would rather fight centuries old battles over and over.

 

[Romans615]

I don’t understand the continued hostility on this forum towards Martin Luther (and sometimes toward Lutherans). Pope Benedict has often spoken well of Luther, and the Church is ready to move on, but some Catholics apparently would rather fight centuries old battles over and over.

I’ve probably said it here too many times, but as a former protestant, I am disgusted with Martin Luther. This is a man who stole the true faith from millions of people. He also wrote a book called “The Jews & Their Lies”. jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Luther_on_Jews.html

I have no patience with or regard for Martin Luther, Calvin, Zwingli or any of those heretics.