Okay. Did my post said otherwise?
" I do not think Calvin was a big fan of the Catholic Church." -- WayneSOkay. Did my post said otherwise?Not a fan of Rome or the papacy, which is not the same thing. --lnf
This might be helpful: We Confess A Holy Catholic Church
I recently addressed part of this question in response to a question from an HB reader. When we say, in the Apostles’ Creed, with the church in all times and all places, “I believe in the Holy Spirit, a holy catholic church….” (Credo in Spiritum sanctum, sanctam Ecclesiam catholicam) we are not confessing that Rome is the Catholic Church....
In short, the early Christian conception of catholicity has no more to do with the Roman congregation than it has with any other congregation and there is no evidence that, when these 2nd century authors spoke of catholicity, these authors were thinking of the pastor of the Roman congregation and certainly not of any episcopal supremacy of the Roman pastor.
During the Reformation, however, the Romanists accused the Protestants of being “sectarian,” i.e., of dividing the church and of falling away from the “Catholic” church. That accusation was exactly backward, however. ...
Whole thing's worth reading.
cc a couple of the saints