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LOL! You seem to have a serious reading comprehension issue. Please read slowly and carefully. Whose story is it you claim has changed? Mine, right? Not yours. Mine. *My* story is and has always been that I understood you, from the beginning, as referring to all Protestant apologists. You furthermore confirmed to me that I understood you correctly during our email conversation, noted above, where you clearly *accepted* rather than *rejected* my use of the now contested term “Protestant apologist” without challenge. Only now, in the light of public scrutiny, do you start making this bizarre distinction between Protestant apologists in general versus some special subspecies of Protestant apologist who is also bigoted and anti-Catholic. You are truly a wonderment. :)

(BTW, I invite the reader to observe: As I anticipated, Vlad will now neither admit nor deny the proposition that all Protestant apologists lie, though when he spoke to me in private he was, as I have shown, less guarded. I am sorry to say this latest evasion was entirely predictable, though I wish to my heart it was not.)

Back to you, Vlad. A couple of points I overlooked before. In our email conversation, you stated to me that none of the evidence you related to me is hearsay. I’m sorry, but if all I’ve got is *hearing* you *say* it, then its *hear*-*say*, one person’s word against another’s, generally worthless as evidence (with some specific exceptions). Doesn’t matter how real it is to you. To me you’re just some anonymous poster who has no problem “ascertaining” the dark motivations of every Protestant apologist on the planet. That sort of wildness is hardly a good basis for trusting your other statements, which most certainly are hearsay. If you don’t believe me, ask any attorney you trust. Please.

As for the Newman quote, er, summary as you say, if it is true these are your own chosen words and not Newman’s, then it is YOU who offered them without the additional qualifiers of “bigoted” or “anti-Catholic.” See here:

“As John Henry Newman said, Protestants, by necessity must lie. It’s all they have.”

So why would you say these words if you didn’t mean them as you said them? And frankly here it is even broader than merely Protestant apologists. It is the absolute set of all Protestants. Do you now admit you were wrong, that the scope is far more limited, that you meant me to magically understand you were only speaking of some special, small group of haters? Those are your words. Will you own them?

Daniel, as for the actual quote for which Vlad’s words are offered as a summary, I have found nothing. I’m not saying there’s no such thought in Newman’s body of work, only that I have not yet discovered it. However, I did find Newman saying this in his Apologia Pro Vita Sua:

“It never could be, that so large a portion of Christendom should have split off from the communion of Rome, and kept up a protest for 300 years for nothing. I think I shall never believe that so much piety and earnestness would be found among Protestants, if there were not some very grave errors on the side of Rome.” See in context here: http://books.google.com/books?id=fksE0AvRGXAC&pg=PT273&lpg=PT273&dq=john+newman+protestants+lie&source=bl&ots=xaaV3zI_nt&sig=5K0i1hUwbDoBxNfDAeWkLI4qKAM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ujU-U-aPLfK_sQSe_YKIBw&ved=0CEcQ6AEwBTgK#v=onepage&q=john%20newman%20protestants%20lie&f=false

So at least at this point in his life, he draws a conclusion nearly opposite the summary proposed by Vlad. I find that … unsurprising.

Defendant; "but, but Your Honor...

everyone

that

I only hit some of them. Which means I'm not guilty as charged...because I was accused of hitting everyone with that one [again points to the same stick of the pair being displayed in evidence]

Judge [to Prosecutor] What was that other stick again? Isn't that the one the defendant hit everyone of this group with? Like -- right here in the court, right in the middle of the trial?

Prosecutor Yes Your Honor. That's the one. The court saw the entire affair. Even you yourself saw it with your own eyes. Yes, that second stick was wielded against the entire class, Sir, but the two do look a lot alike...

Judge [to Defendant] And what do you have to say?

Defendant Still not guilty as charged, Your Honor. The charges say I used stick #1 on all. I did not. Only on some [under his breath adding "and they deserved it"]

Judge What was that I just heard..? Who deserved, what?

Defendent They did, Your Honor. All of them, uh I mean only the anti- [redacted] bigots. Oh, and those others, too. They all lie. According to my factual opinion, your Honor.

Judge Your... opinion?

Defendant That's a fact, Your Honor.

“It never could be, that so large a portion of Christendom should have split off from the communion of Rome, and kept up a protest for 300 years for nothing.

Then he has never been educated by FR RCs,

"I think I shall never believe that so much piety and earnestness would be found among Protestants, if there were not some very grave errors on the side of Rome.”

He proceeds to say,

To suppose the contrary is most unreal, and violates all one's notions of moral responsibilities. All aberrations are founded on, and have their life in, some truths or other-and Protestantism, so widely spread and so long enduring, must have in it, and must be a witness for a great truth or much truth. That I am an advocate for Protestantism, you cannot suppose; -but I am forced into a Via Media, short of Rome, as it is at present. - John Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua April 26, 1841

This was before his formal conversion from Anglicanism in October 1845, which has its own problems. Yet, I read that Newman looked back on his conversion to evangelical Christianity in 1816 as the saving of his soul.

There are other testimonies of Catholic converts who likewise testified of there conversion being before they became Catholic, and the typical evangelical manner is in which baptism proceeds from regeneration with the profound effects which they testified of. And which converts Rome seeks to bring life to her pews, while the majority of converts from Catholicism to evangelical churches say the main reason was the spiritual deficiency they found in Rome.