The faith of our fathers - Carmel Apologetics

HOLINESS OF THE CHUBCH. 49Archbishop of Braga, in Portugal, preached an incessant crusade against iniquity in high and lowplaces.St. Ignatius of Loyola and St. Alphonsus,with their companions, were conspicuous and successful reformers throughout Europe. St. Philip Ncriwas called the modern Apostle of Rome, because ofhis happy efforts in dethroning vice in that city.All these Catholic Apostles preached by example aswell as by word.Luther and Calvin, and Zuinglius andHow doKnox, and Henry VIII. compare with these genuine and saintly reformers, both as to their moralcharacter and the fruit of their labors? The private lives of these pseudo-reformers were stained bycruelty, rapine, and licentiousness; and as the resultof their propagandism, history records civil wars,and bloodshed, and bitter religious strife, and thedismemberment of Christianity into a thousand sects.Instead of co-operating with the lawful authorities in extinguishing the flames which the passionsof men had enkindled in the city of God, thesefaithless citizens flyfrom the citadel which theyhad vowed to defend ;then joining the enemy, theyhasten back to fan the conflagration, and to increasethe commotion. And they overturn the very altarsbefore which they previously sacrificed as consecrated1They sanctioned rebellion by underminingpriests.the principle of authority.priests.Luther, Zuinglius, and Knox had been ordained1Calvin had studied for the priesthood, but did not receiveOrders5 D