One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic: Marks of the Church Building as well as the Church Herself

The New Liturgical Movement ^ | June 8, 2010 | Matthew Alderman

[vladimir998]

You wrote:

“This comes from the website of the city of Prague, Czech Republic itself (prague.cz).”

Sorry, but you’re going to have to do better than that. Here are the problems with what you posted:

“The Church of Rome confiscated the chapel then and Jesuit order bought it in 1661.”

1) If it was a Catholic chapel in the beginning - and that’s what Hus called it - then no “confiscation” could take place on the part of Rome. The chapel would already have belonged to it.

2) Since the Church of Rome never took to the field in military arms as such in the battles around Prague in the 1620 it was clearly the governmental forces which took control of the chapel. They gave it to whom they wished.

3) When Protestants, under Samuel Martini, seized control of Prague in 1632, they did not give the Bethlehem Chapel to any supposed followers of Huss. They simply did not recognize them as the proper owners of the building.

4) After the Battle of White Mountain the Jesuits actually had restored to them an entirely different building which had previously been seized by the followers of Huss. In other words, this supposed seizing of buildings had been going in both directions.

5) Also, and you probably didn’t know this (why would you know these facts?), the Unitas Fratrum got control of the Bethlehem Chapel in 1612 after the fall of HRE Rudolph. This is one of the reasons why they named their settlement in Pennsylvania Bethlehem.

“They made it a Catholic church.”

That’s what it had been in the beginning - according to Huss.

[RegulatorCountry]

You have a very faulty memory, vlad. My mother’s family were Moravian, going all the way through Bethania to Wachovia to Easton, PA, to Rotterdam and Saxony before. I know quite well what and who Unitas Fratrum were and are, as would you if you’d ever bothered to read the links you insist upon from others but don’t provide yourself.