The Catholics won in France and slaughtered Huguenots which is largely why it remained Catholic
They did eventually lose England after the Stuart’s James II but they sure got in their punches over those 200 plus years pleading up to the Glorious Revolution
There is no question the Church reacted to Protestant heresy brutally wherever it popped up
My point in the discussion was to point out the one-sided nature of the previous comments.
There is a tendency among some Freepers to make judgmental claims about the Catholic Church without taking the similar view of the history of their own religious sects.
Likewise, there is currently a knee-jerk reaction to anything and everything Pope Francis does and says, even when it upholds the sanctity of marriage, the dignity of life, and living the beatitudes.