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You offer a good example to follow in the art of apologetics for those with whom you are in communion.

With the "art of apologetics" I am in good company, that is, in communion, with 1 billion Catholics and His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, the successor of Peter, the Rock on which Jesus built His Church.
I am grateful for the blessing to be in His Fold.

Protestants protested. That was the foundation of their being. Ahem, talk about apologists.

Actually, if you want to go all out as a heavy duty Roman Catholic, you might want to call those who started asking questions about the "traditions of men" and the corruption of the institutional church "revolters".
The monster "trads" on your side of the Tiber call it the Protestant revolt and esteem Hilaire Belloc who categorizes "Protestants with the Mohammedans as just so many heretics.Frankly, quite stupid considering the wealth of reality based examples of how perverse a notion this is. Historically, I believe most of the Western tradition speaks of the Reformation. I am a Christian who believes, as my conscience demands, that the reforms exacted at that time were accurate and necessary.
I am away for the weekend here shortly, so I'll sign off now. This thread has gone too far afield. Same old, same old.