“Today they are Waldensians!”
No. They ceased being Waldensians when they became Calvinists in the 16th century. Then they became Methodists. This is why they talk about it themselves: http://www.studivaldesi.org/dizionario/evan_det.php?evan_id=173
“Your Pope recently asked for their forgiveness for persecuting and slaughtering them.”
This pope asks everyone for forgiveness - so much so that it is becoming meaningless. I wonder if the Waldensians will ask for forgiveness for their heresy in the Middle Ages, their heresy in the modern era and their support for gay marriage?
After being slaughtered by your peeps and popes, they weee glad for fellowship by the time the Reformation was sweeping Europe. They joined together with like-minded believers.
They still call themselves Waldensians.
That they were called heretics by a heretical church didn’t make them heretics. It made them persecuted and slaughtered.
Two men considering a religious vocation were having a conversation.
"What is similar about the Jesuit and Dominican Orders? " the one asked.
The second replied, "Well, they were both founded by Spaniards -- St. Dominic for the Dominicans, and St. Ignatius of Loyola for the Jesuits. They were also both founded to combat heresy -- the Dominicans to fight the Albigensians, and the Jesuits to fight the Protestants."
"What is different about the Jesuit and Dominican Orders?"
"Met any Albigensians lately?"