Catholic Criticism of Protestantism
By Editor
It Seems to Depend on Whose Ox.—The Catholic Mirror of April 17, in criticising a noted Protestant lecturer for making certain strictures before a public audience concerning Roman Catholic countries, says:— "One never yet hears of a Catholic lecturer insulting Protestants. A man like Mr. Smith, who depends a good deal upon personal popularity for the sale of his writings, makes a bad business blunder in descending to this low device of assailing Catholics." We will leave the statement regarding Catholic lecturers to those who have listened. Mr Smith seems to have found out that his criticism was "a bad business blunder," and so apologized. But with the above we wished to publish a little item from the same Mirror, concerning Protestantism, primarily addressed to a Protestant:— "The most corrupt men of the time, Henry VIII., a bigamist, king of England; William the Silent, a bigamist, king of Holland; Philip of Hesse, a bigamist, and Luther, who broke his priestly vows of chastity, and violated, while she was in the Convent of Nimpchen, a nun of ill fame named Catharine Bora, these declared that the church had grown corrupt. These shouted reform. These became the apostles of reform." There is more in the same line. This we suppose would be called teaching the "truth" to save. What Protestants might say of the Papacy would be falsehood and insult. What Protestants ought to say to the above is, Our faith is founded, not on man, but on Jesus Christ and his Word.