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To: Natural Law

Wasn’t Calvin’s father an excommunicated thief?


7,420 posted on 09/28/2010 8:38:56 PM PDT by Judith Anne (Holy Mary, Mother of God, please pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.)
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To: Judith Anne
"Wasn’t Calvin’s father an excommunicated thief?"

That too, but that only went into the shaping of Calvin's character. The real issue is that he was an accused sodomite who fled France under a cloud of suspicion. I only bring it up in the context of the double standard applied by the anti-Catholics. Where they are so quick to condemn Catholics they are reluctant to admit any problems in their own clergy and fiercely defensive of the sinless reputation of the fathers of the reformation.

7,425 posted on 09/28/2010 8:45:01 PM PDT by Natural Law (A lie is a known untruth expressed as truth. A liar is the one who tells it.)
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To: Judith Anne
Wasn’t Calvin’s father an excommunicated thief?

The latter (Calvins father)died in 1531, under excommunication from the chapter for not sending in his accounts. The old man's illness, not his lack of honesty, was, we are told, the cause.
Catholic encyclopedia

BTW it was to a thief that Jesus promised heaven ....

7,559 posted on 09/29/2010 11:29:03 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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