I’m certainly not looking for an argument, but one of your comments struck me:
“...so she could see that in the cultural glory of the middle ages can be found the glory of the same God who spoke through Aquinas and Francis, through Julian and Thomas a Kempis...”
If someone believes “God spoke through Aquinas and Francis, through Julian and Thomas a Kempis” all of whom believed in the Catholic Church, transubstantiation, the sacraments, the veneration of Mary, celibacy of the clergy, communion of saints and veneration of saints, relics, etc., then how can that same person be a Protestant and logically or theologically consistent?
The short answer is that there is no one who is pure in doctrine, including Luther and certainly including me. That’s not a very good answer, but to be honest after I posted that message I received some news that wasn’t too good and I am not thinking very well. I would appreciate your and anyone else’s prayers right now.