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To: markomalley
"This is the first time in history the laity has ever had a voice ... No one in the church ever objected before. This is first time large numbers of people have stood up and objected," said John Moynihan, the head of media relations for the group.

This self-aggrandizing fool evidently forgot about the Reformation.

2 posted on 08/17/2006 3:34:10 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: madprof98

The Reformation was really about suppressing the laity not allowing it to speak up. The laity in Catholic countries overwhelmingly wanted to remain Catholic. Read Eamon Duffy's Stripping of the Altars and see how that happened in England.


11 posted on 08/17/2006 6:00:42 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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