Thank God for using poor, flawed Saint Luther to restore the message of eternal life through the grace of God!
He still lives rent free in the heads of FRomans!
Did you put this in News?
“The just shall live by faith.”
With all due respect to the Rev Charles J Chaput, I’d say he’d be better served in getting his own house in order.
How many of the FReepers commenting on this article have actually read the OP in its entirety? You might find it rather incisive, and also more than fair to Luther.
Celebrating five centuries from one of the major events that led to the Reformation.
Even the Catholic Church has made some important changes as a result. They no longer burn heretics at the stake. (Neither do any Protestant denominations I am aware of.) They do not sell indulgences. And they cooperate with Protestants in many important civil matters like electing politicians who are pro-life, pro-liberty, pro-faith, and pro-family.
God has been calling people to Himself, through His Son Jesus our Lord and Savior, down through the centuries (before and after the Reformation), from all denominations and religious and irreligious backgrounds. And He has and is transforming these chosen ones through the power of the cross.
Salvation is through Him.
The one I’m proud of is Jean Calvin...
He would probably be horrified by a Marxist Islamophile Pope.
Maybe so, maybe not, however, it was the Grace of God that led to the rise of Protestantism.
Yet the Jesuit, Bergoglio, is intent on starting his own "church":
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“We Catholics have some — and not some, many — who believe they possess the absolute truth and go ahead dirtying the other with calumny, with disinformation, and doing evil. They do evil. I say this because it is my Church.”
The gig was up with the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire and Muslims driving Eastern Christians into Western Europe with all their scriptures then the invention of the printing press. Martin Luther was a Roman Catholic and wanted the church to change. Funny to see Roman Catholics invoking Martin Luther and the rot in Christendom on a whole. Faux Christendom don’t believe the Bible and believe a lie. Will there be any Imams kissing the Bible?
I think it’s 53 of the 56 signers of the Declaration were Protestants.
the 500th anniversary is just 17 days away.