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Young Pilgrim, It's commendable that you don't want to start any petty disagreements over your post. To insure yourself of this fact you've attempted to discredit the Roman Catholic papacy. I know that just about any Catholic would be mild mannered in answering your questions. It is at that...

Big Norsk, There was absolutely no slavery under Catholicism. You say this is a motivated denial of history? If you really believe this then I suggest you start reading history. I have never met a Protestant that knows his history. To delve into history a Protestant will always turn Catholic.

The monestary could be considered the center of the land owned by the Church. All (100%) of the men that worked the land around the monestary were free men. People still had to work for a living. It certainly doesn't make them slaves. The monestary charged them a minute amount of rent. An amount...

I may have been amiss in not quoting references. Try Hilaire Beloc------The Reformation William Cobbett-------Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland. William Cobbett wrote the book mentioned above in 1824. He was a Protestant. He was also honest in that he reported exactly as he saw...

If membership is being used as the criteria for a good church, then how many members does your church have?

The Barbarians would have destroyed everything they touched if it wasn't for the Roman Catholic Church. There was no alternative to be Roman Catholic. That was the only Christian religion in existance. It was the Roman Catholics that tamed the barbarians. Absolutely nothing was handed to the...

cbreviews, The Roman Empire was built on slavery. It was the Catholic Church that eliminated slavery over a period of a few hundred years. Under the Holy Roman Empire there were no slaves. All men were free. It wasn't until the Reformation that slavery came back into custom.

You're correct cbreviews, Rome didn't save culture. It was the Roman Catholic Church that saved Rome. Only this Rome was made up of Catholics. No pagans, they were Catholics. This is exactly what is so amazing about this whole scenario. Rome was destroying itself internally. It would have gone...

I'm old enough to remember 35 to 40 years ago. All the Protestants were hot after converting the Catholics to their brand of Protestantism. They were very successful. The reasons they were successful was because the Protestants were friendly, as long as you agreed with them and also because the...

If anyone would like to read a fascinating book about Britain during and after the Reformation, it's called "Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland" by William Cobbett. Cobbett was a Protestant and he wrote this book in 1824. That's where I picked my name;)

Little Lamb of Jesus, Actually the land and the money went to the Protestants that were in power. This happened especially in Britain. It's completely possible that the reformation would not have happened in Britain if there wasn't so much money at stake. The reformation made the politically...

Amen

By the third Century Rome was feeling the pains and aches of its civilization falling apart. It's soldiers were all of German, Slav, Frank, or other Northern European background. There were very few Roman soldiers to fill the ranks. Roman citizens became debauched, crime was rampant. There was...

So Luther wasn't a Protestant. I learn something new everyday.

I went back two pages. There was nothing of any substantial nature there. If it was written by someone, it was a hatefilled comment. Why should I bother about the unfounded opinions of someone that hates? Why would you put an unsubstatiated comment as part of every one of your messages? It...

I went to that site and found nothing. Where is your documentation?

Little Lamb, You are the first person I have ever heard that said this. Show your documentation! edit: Not even the Orthodox would say something this stupid.

Little Lamb, You've posted where the Pope shamlessley said that Jesus founded the papacy as His Church. Actually Jesus founded the Catholic Church as His Church on Earth. Not only that, if, for whatever reason, the Pope and the Vatican ceased to exist, His Church would continue. It would be...

According to what I just read, the Holy Spirit left the Catholic Church in the fifth century. (Because it was very bad). In the 16th Century it entered the Protestant Churches. There are many differences in the Protestant Churches in how they believe. Why do you think the Holy Spirit would be in...

Please explain then what it is all about.