I am a Roman Catholic. I am also a Roman Catholic priest who has been given permission to no longer minister in a parish and to have a family. I married an amazing spouse and have three amazing children. I downloaded and started to watch the Catholic/Protestant video (part5 of 5) which was being offered for free and I was immediately stunned by the anti-Catholic views of the presenter. Not sure where to go with this but it certainly didn't rouse me to an enthusiastic dialogue with my fellow Christians. I have an MDiv (University of Toronto) and a B.S.T. (St. Paul's University, Ottawa) and I can assure you that there is little in this video that has merit except to try and protolyze Catholics into leaving their faith. Views such as these only divide and make no attempt to unite our Christian churches. We should be trying to build bridges of understanding and reconciliation not creating divisions and animosity.
- I was able to jump around a little bit in the video, from what I saw and heard the OP stands correct. This is a presentation designed to proselytize Catholics. He seems to be attacking every place Rome disagrees with Reformed groups. Which means, the presenter seems to indicate that the majority of Christendom is simply not Christian. I'm Lutheran, some of what was said goes against Lutheranism as well, not even mentioning Orthodox. I like most of the learnlogos material, but I can't recommend this particular video.
- I was raised in the Roman cult, but God graciously rescued me 40 years ago. I would suggest that you read two books: "A Woman Rides the Beast" and "The Gospel According to Rome." The first gives the history of the long corruption in the Roman cult. The second puts Roman doctrine side-by-side with the Gospel. Sola Scriptura!
- Robert Pappin, what Logos resources would you recommend as a source of true Catholic-Protestant dialogue? Thanks!