History PROVES Catholicism (Full Documentary)

famously it was said by St john Henry Newman that to be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant this statement has frequently been misunderstood by many Catholics and Protestants alike as they claim that history so clearly shows forth each and every dogma of Roman Catholicism that anyone with even a basic acquaintance and a degree of honesty could not help but to become Catholic

if St newman meant this he would be rightly criticized since history does not provide us with a neat and orderly presentation of dogma that we would like yet this is exactly the point that St newman intends to make in the messiness and disorder of history what is clear is that it is not the principles of Protestantism steering the ship rather it is only by Catholic principles that

you are able to understand it st newman argues that the Protestants who wield history against Catholicism end up wielding a double-edged sword a sword which cuts them and leaves Catholicism unscathed among the arguments commonly employed in apologetical debates there are few as misunderstood as the idea of the consensus of the fathers yet this problem is not a new one it is a

problem that Catholic theologians have been dealing with for quite some time even in the 1950s the sacred theologia Suma comments quote the authors often especially in the manuals argue only from the authority rather than from the consent of the fathers they quote some fragments of the fathers in which the same doctrine is asserted which they are defending but this is nothing other

than to confirm a doctrine from the authority of the fathers who are cited end quote this of course is not to disparage the writing of the manuals but to point out certain habitual problems that had affected some of the manuals problems which were remedied throughout the early 1900s by the writing and citing of monographs and journal articles where the teaching of a particular father or the