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A Jesuit theologian that was the author of the most widely used English adult catechism, Fr. John Hardon, said that the Protestant Reformation did good in forcing the CC to come back with the Counter-Reformation that did away with some of the ills within the Church.
The Js are normally good value - the thinking man's Catholicism. We were married by one.
We got some commonality here in another area as my Scottish great-grandfather, who my older relatives say that I'm a lot like both personality-wise and physically, was a lay-minister in the Methodist church who sometimes took over when the pastor wasn't available.The Js are normally good value - the thinking man's Catholicism. We were married by one.
I try not to get tribal about denominations. My grandfather was a Methodist minister and ended up Professor of church history at Glasgow. So he was a bit of a thinking man's Methodist.
Well at any rate your ancestors were Scotsmen. My grandfather was from Yorkshire. He ended up with the chair at Glasgow after time spent as a missionary in China and then lecturing at Selly Oak college in Birmingham. (For unrelated reasons, I was born in Edinburgh, as it happens.)
Hoho, very good. But as you can see from the discussion, it is actually a tiny bit more nuanced than that.
In the Protestant Reformation," led by Martin Luther. Luther and others were critical of certain doctrines and what they believed to be corruption within the Catholic church.
I've been taking a quick look at the background to this idea.
Sounds a lot like me.
I'll be moving back myself soon with my wife and slightly younger and equally fiercely secular daughter. It should be fun 
I wish I had a chance to go there myself. My parents spent two weeks there back in the 80's, and they went to where our ancestors lived on the Isle of Skye.
Garbage.
Well said! Very true.
How many priests have you actually heard say that, BB?
Ah, Skye. Sail bonnie boat, etc. I've never made it to Skye, though I did get to Loch Hourn and Glenelg once (with a Scottish nurse I had originally met in Sharjah in the UAE....), so I could see Skye across the Sound of Sleat. I recall that, in the pub, the locals spoke in a dialect that sounded almost Irish.I wish I had a chance to go there myself. My parents spent two weeks there back in the 80's, and they went to where our ancestors lived on the Isle of Skye.
Oh, btw, when they finished taking a tour there, may father asked the tour guide whether anyone in the past actually died a natural death?
Catholicism holds to certain dogmas that aren't necessarily obvious from a lay reading of the Bible. If people read it for themselves, they can be left with questions and ideas at odds to Catholic doctrine. So discouraging unguided Bible reading is a simple prophylactic measure against such questioning and ideas.
The modern Catholic Church is a lot less ideological about such things, but when my Dad was a kid, he was certainly warned off reading the Bible himself, to the point he was quite disturbed when I read it for myself the first time. Even as recently as when I joined the Army, the field Scriptures (cool little book, had a camouflage cover and everything) Catholc chaplains gave out were strictly New Testament, rather than the much more problematic and provoking Old Testament.