SAYMP #042 - Protestants, Catholics and Protestant Catholics
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As Catholics we acknowledge that Jesus Christ left an authority to speak on his behalf on earth, and those who would be in authority to govern the church in the various regions throughout the earth, a fundamental truth which sets us apart from protestants. This tendency to protest however, is not something isolated to protestants, but oftentimes Catholics as well, whether converts to Catholicism from Protestantism, or those raised as Catholics with a tendency to protest the faith and the bishops whenever they disagree with them. Those who are Catholic in act and confession, but in their heart they are protestants.
-Matthew 23:1-12
-Modern Catholic Dictionary: Protestantism
-Merriam-Webster Dictionary: Protest
-1983 Code of Canon Law: CAN 212
-1983 Code of Canon Law: CAN 1373
-Catechism of the Catholic Church: 2246
-Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae: PT II of II, Q 104, A5
-Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae: PT II of II, Q 105, A1
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