Whatever happened to *Innocent until proved guilty*?
Or is that only for pedophile Catholic priests?
Catholics, to avoid being hypocrites, need to hold themselves to the level of proof required by them to condemn a priest.
If they're going to smear Calvin like that, they need PROOF and it's up to them to present it to establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, because I'm sure some Catholic is going to come along and claim that Calvin is guilty by default and it's up to someone else to prove he wasn't.
Proof from the Catholics, not hearsay, or innuendo, but facts, like the kind they demand before condemning their own priests (who Catholics will not admit as being guilty even when the priest ADMITS to the crime)
Double standards = hypocrisy.
From the Catholic Encyclopedia under the heading ‘Jerome Bolsec’:
“Shortly after this (Bolsec’s return to France), he recanted his errors, was reconciled with the Catholic Church, and published biographies of the two Genevan reformers, Calvin and Beza (1519-1605). These works are violent in tone, and find little favour with protestant writers. Their historical statements cannot always be relied on.” (ellipsis mine.)
To put it mildly! “ Their historical statements cannot always be relied on.”
Never will understand why they insist on constantly bringing Calvin into the fray....always something that diverts away from what they will never be able to justify...and they know it....so I suppose Calvin..or any other they might name will do the “trick”.
Wonder if their Priests have ever sought forgiveness for their acts? or were they simply repentant because they got caught?..and so many of them and more yet to be revealed no doubt.