“To paraphrase St. Francis de Sales to the early Protestants: If you’d known what the Catholic Church really taught you’d never have left.”
Right, because it’s not as if the early Protestants were actually Catholics, including Catholic priests and theologians, or anything like that. /sarc
Which early Protestants do you assert were bona fide Catholic Theologians ?
“Right, because it’s not as if the early Protestants were actually Catholics, including Catholic priests and theologians, or anything like that. /sarc”
It helps to know history. De Sales died in 1622. When he brought thousands of the Protestants in the Geneva area to the Catholic faith they had been Protestants for 50 years or more. Many or most had never been Catholic.
The pamphlets he used to help convert them were later compiled as a book. It’s still in print: http://www.amazon.com/The-Catholic-Controversy-Defense-Faith/dp/0895553872