Nobody tell me the Reformation was a bad thing. The institution of the Roman Church was and is a self-protecting bureaucracy that needed competition. Just like public schools establishment needs competition. That’s one of the results of original sin - you can’t concentrate power in unaccountable bureaucracies, insulated from competition, and deny choices to the people
The Reformation - 500 years old next year - was about freedom and legitimate institutional accountability
I....and a lot of Catholics.....will agree that the Reformation was needed.
Arrogant, self-righteous, insular leadership has long plagued our Church. Martin Luther did them a favor.
The fact that you now hear Away In a Manger played in Catholic Churches at Christmastime seems a tacit admission that the clergy knows it too.
“The Reformation - 500 years old next year - was about freedom and legitimate institutional accountability”
Looking back, how did that work out? The Catholic Church acknowledged the necessity of the Reformation with the Counter-Reformation, and while it has many problems today, the Catholic Church would be more easily recognized than the Protestant Churches if someone flashed forward 500 years to today. While most Masses are no longer in Latin, the idea of a “married” female homosexual presiding over services would be quite a shock for the Protestant time traveler. Based on the “Canterbury Tales”, I don’t think the homosexual scandal in the Catholic Church would be so shocking.