The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870

The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870

This volume included the entire text of the Dogmatic Decree on Catholic Faith with its English translation. The Decree was not in the original contents list, but appearedout of normal paginationafter the New Publications section at the end of the June 1870 issue. In our third article on the Abb Martin's exhaustive work on the future of Protestantism and Catholicity, we disposed of the pretension of Protestants that the Reformation created and has sustained civil and political liberty in modern society. We proceed in the present and concluding article to dispose, as far as we can, of the pretension that it has founded and sustained religious liberty, or the freedom of conscience. No fact is more certain than that the Reformation has the credit with non-Catholics, if not even with some half-instructed Catholics themselves, of having originated religious liberty and vindicated the freedom of the mind. Here as elsewhere the formula of the age, or what claims to be enlightened in it, is, Protestantism and freedom, or Catholicity and slavery; and it is to its prestige of having founded and sustained religious liberty that Protestantism owes its chief ability in our times to carry on its war against the church. Protestantism, like all false religions or systems, having no foundation in truth and no vital energy of its own, lives and prospers only by availing itself of the so-called spirit of the age, or by appealing to the dominant public opinion of the time and the place. In the sixteenth century, the age tended to the revival of imperialism or csarism, and Protestantism favored monarchical absolutism, and drew from it its life, its force, and its sustenance. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 46324
Author: Various
Release Date: Jul 19, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English