Why, yes, I DID bother to search for a quote from Cardinal Newman that said, “Protestants have to lie.”. He didn’t really say that, did he? But thanks for the link anyway.
True Testimony Insufficient for the Protestant View
“I then said, that the more fully the imputations which were cast upon us were examined, the more unfounded they would turn out to be; so that the great Tradition on which we are persecuted is little short of one vast pretence or fiction.”
“Hence Protestants are obliged to cut their ninth commandment out of their Decalogue. “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour” must go, must disappear; their position requires the sacrifice.”
“The substance, the force, the edge of their Tradition is slander.”
“To Protestantism False Witness is the principle of propagation.”
“Taking things as they are, and judging of them by the long run, one may securely say, that the anti-Catholic Tradition could not be kept alive, would die of exhaustion, without a continual supply of fable.”
” The Tradition requires bold painting; its prominent outline, its glaring colouring, needs to be a falsehood.”
“If truth had been sufficient to put down Catholicism, the Reformers would not have had recourse to fiction.”
“Errors indeed creep in by chance, whatever be the point of inquiry or dispute; but I am not accusing Protestants merely of incidental or of attendant error, but I mean that falsehood is the very staple of the views which they have been taught to entertain of us.”
Should I keep going? I think I can easily sum up Cardinal Newman’s quotes above (drawn from just the first two paragraphs of his lecture): Protestants have to lie.