“If during the Reformation you were a Catholic who lived in a part of Germany in which Lutheranism was the ascendant religion and the ruler of the province or the region was Lutheran, to stay a Catholic, you either had to be a dissenter or you had to leave.” IfsCatholicGermanyRegionsRulersReformationProvincesLutherans Author:Susan Jacoby
“One of the reasons there are largely Catholic and largely Protestant regions of Germany today is that people did sort themselves out geographically.” PeopleReasonTodayCatholicGermanyRegionsProtestants Author:Susan Jacoby
“Once the Roman Catholic Church in the West became the church most closely connected with the state, the Roman Catholic Church did not recognize the validity of any religion other than its own.” StatesChurchCatholicWestConnectedCatholic ChurchValidityRoman CatholicRoman Catholic Church Author:Susan Jacoby
“For one thing, the Catholic Church in particular has this one thing - confession - in which you could go, confess to a priest and obtain absolution of your sins. And there was a routine and a ritual and I think - I think that it did help.” ThinkingHelpingChurchSinOne ThingParticularCatholicPriestsRitualRoutineConfessionCatholic ChurchAbsolution Author:Susan Jacoby
“It is easy to forget, since the Catholic Church is now the only large American religious denomination whose ecclesiastical hierarchy continues to oppose birth control, that only a century ago the leaders of nearly all churches were united in their resistance to any public discussion of the subject.” ReligionEasyChurchReligiousForgetUnitedLeaderSubjectsCenturyBirthCatholicResistanceDiscussionHierarchyCatholic ChurchBirth ControlDenominations Book:Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism Source: Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
