‘Do you know what “church “ that site represents?’
Here is the writer’s home page:
http://sites.google.com/site/standfordrives/Home
He formerly attended a Reformed Congregation but does not say where he goes now.
Is he right on this?
“Protestants generally misapprehend Catholicism as conservative and never evolving. Instead, it was always capable of radical revisions. For example, on the issue of purgatory, Augustine in the 400’s said there is a heaven and a hell but of a “third place we are entirely ignorant.” Then speculation began in the 600’s on purgatory. It was then only in 1140 A.D. that purgatory became an official doctrine. Then in 1563, it was decreed at Trent that anyone who denied purgatory was cursed and could not be saved. See Isaac Mann, Cursory Remarks, on a Treatise Entitled, Thoughts on Nature and Religion; or, an apology for the Right of Private Judgment, maintained by Michael Servetus, M.D. in his answer to John Calvin by a Clergyman of the Church of England (Cork: William Flyn, 1775) at 24.