lol. If that were true, why did the pope issue a special coin to commemorate the slaughter and offer prayers of thanksgiving for killing tens of thousands of Calvinists?
The Romanist method of debate is to just make things up.
I suppose it's easy for Rome to get confused. So many infidels. So many slaughters. They all start to look alike.
The Romanist method of debate is to just make things up.
I suppose it’s easy for Rome to get confused. So many infidels. So many slaughters. They all start to look alike.
TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TRUE. Sadly.
I suppose that perverting history to support your anti-Catholic agenda is not as big a sin as your perversion of Scripture and the Catechism, but it is still wrong.
The "massacre" came after three French civil wars between the Catholic royalists and Huguenot factions backed by the English in which there were many casualties and atrocities on both sides. In a move than honest historians affirm prevented a Huguenot coup d'etat, the prominent Huguenot leaders be arrested "dead or alive". Triggered by the actions and the resulting looting of Huguenot properties mob rule ensued in which many Huguenot men, women, and children were murdered by predominantly Catholic mobs. The actions were NEVER celebrated by the Church.
On 23 August 1997, Pope John Paul II, who was in Paris for the 12th World Youth Day, issued a statement on the Massacre. According to Reuters and the Associated Press, at a late-night vigil, with the hundreds of thousands of young people who were in Paris for the celebrations, he made the following comments:
"On the eve of Aug. 24, we cannot forget the sad massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Day, an event of very obscure causes in the political and religious history of France. ... Christians did things which the Gospel condemns. I am convinced that only forgiveness, offered and received, leads little by little to a fruitful dialogue, which will in turn ensure a fully Christian reconciliation. ... Belonging to different religious traditions must not constitute today a source of opposition and tension. On the contrary, our common love for Christ impels us to seek tirelessly the path of full unity."