Protestant Concessions to Catholicism
That Protestants are more than ever inclined to make concessions to the Catholics is evident from the every-day utterances of the pulpit and press. As a marked instance of this characteristic, we note the following remark, made editorially in The Independent of Feb. 17, 1887: “The religion of Catholicism is that of the Bible, and considerable more; it is a religion of God and the Bible.” That is about as good a testimony as Catholics could desire from Protestants, and no doubt they will heartily thank The Independent for those words. Thus is the way being paved for the more complete blending of Protestantism with Catholicism, and the consequent establishment of the American papacy. The strangest part of the proceeding is that Protestants cannot see that they are doing all the yielding, while “Rome never changes.”