And how many Catholics were slaughtered at the hands of the English?
Rome’s sins cannot be justified by pointing to the sins of others. My ancestors were Separatists, so I’m no defender of England, but her sins were nothing compared to Rome.
Popes and potentates don’t seem to know that no man can be converted at the point of a spear. From beginning to end, salvation is of the Lord. It takes an act of God to regenerate the dead heart of a sinner.
“And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.” (Revelation 17:6)