[ADSUM]

Consequently, Steve and Jimmy recently met at Catholic Answers to engage in a series of debates hosted by Cy Kellett of Catholic Answers Live. We covered the most fundamental issues separating Protestants and Catholics:

• The question of authority: What is the role of Scripture and Tradition? • The Church: Is it just an “invisible union” of all believers? • St. Peter: Did Jesus make him the leader of the apostles? • Salvation and the sacraments: What should we make of the controversy over justification “by faith alone,” and how should we understand sacraments like baptism and the Eucharist? • Mary and the saints: What role should they play in our lives? Should we ask them to pray for us?

[cdcdawg]

They could debate which has been subverted the most thoroughly over the past 100 years. That would be a debate worth having.

[FewsOrange]

Their eyes are too close together.

[Red6]

I wish Catholics and Protestants could work together better because the lack of unity has allowed the secular and in some cases outright atheist agenda to win.

But I do not see that happening and that is because of the Protestants (to whom I belong). Why? Because 1/2 of the Protestants are themselves 15 major denominations (believing in very different things) and then nearly 1/2 of them belonging to a list of various denominations to extensive and in some cases obscure to even list here. Protestants go from ultra liberal to ultra conservative and orthodox. Trying to find a common ground with that group... well, they can’t even find a common ground amongst themselves.

There are some groups among the Protestants that would work very well with the Catholics, say the LCMS which is more conservative than the Catholic church, very similar in beliefs, just without a Pope. But what about the ELCA with their gay marriages, tattooed female pastors and unwilling to even make a value judgement on abortion? Both have “Lutheran” in their name, but that’s about it.

***Reading from the “fundamental issues” listed, you will not find unity in how the Protestants see things.

One of the unforeseen consequences of Luther was that once they peeled away from the Catholic church which maintained unity in doctrine and tradition, there was nothing holding them together and they continued to divide and continued to come up with their own new ideas of what Christianity is.

[FroedrickVonFreepenstein]

Top 10 Reasons I am not a Protestant by Jay Dyer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9AhEn1C-iA

Jay is Orthodox by the way. Very interesting. His video called The Root of Protestant Error is very good as well.

[MurphsLaw]

The Good Bishop Sheen was being his usual diplomatic, kind self, when he spoke this quote, as he understated the true depths of the Jack Chic sect and the "false Church" crowd even to this day. But more noteworthy of this quote is the fact that that he probably could not foresee it applying to millions of Catholics today- who do not know even know the fullness and richness of their own Catholic faith …..

“There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.”

-Fulton J. Sheen

[GOPJ]

The real split is between Catholics who are traditional and Catholics who are following a commie thug Pope.