Has anyone attempted to reunite the catholic and protestant faith since the reformation?

Has anyone attempted to reunite the catholic and protestant faith since the reformation?

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2 posts in and you faggots are already doing this

I just say countereeformation.

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That would be a lot harder to do than with denoms like the Orthodox who have less matters of contention with each other.

It's actually a pretty big topic for most popes. The idea is the Pope is trying to find a way to convince others to come to Christ. It's generally easier to look at particular obstacles to conquer and compartmentalize to try and solve that issue. Protestants represent a large demographic with relatively similar beliefs, thus they make for a strong target for proselytization. Easier to make specific arguments against a group of people who all have the same objections.

Some popes of yesteryear like the fire and sword approach, that heresy is much like a cancer that must be excised before it can take root. That worked well for a lot of smaller sects that were easily contained, though generally imprisonment or execution caused a pretty heavy backlash amongst anyone who thought they might be a potential target (Sort of like deportation of illegal immigrants makes legal ones nervous in modern day US), and theologically, it was a pretty grave sin to be putting people to death.

Some popes tried ecumencism, which attempted to rectify matters semi-peacefully by encouraging theological debates, some tolerance of heresy, and exerting political pressure towards other faiths, all in an attempt to bring about conversion or at least common ground. This had its failings because theological discussion has no empirical solution, nor is it often the end-all, be-all reason of belonging to a particular faith; tradition (in the sense that a specific individual has been part of a denomination all his life) and community (leaving a church would damage ties to a man's family and friends) are important factors as well. Also, attempting to find common ground leads to compromises of faith, which neither side wishes to accept, making common ground impossible.

Personally, I doubt a real solution is possible to reunite the lost, beyond waging individual battles for the conversion of laity from one side to the other.

It happens all the time. It's what pope francis is attempting to do right now.

Unfortunately, all ecumenical and evangelical movements do is water down the faity. We slowly become more and more protestant and modern.

I think the culmination of this is the "charismatic form" of the Mass. It's about like going to a Baptist Church service. They don't even have a crucifix present.

I think that the damage is done. The only way to repair it now would be for the Church to go back to its roots. No compromise, no heresy. This would attract some protestants, but certainly not all.

I haven't really seen a Charismatic form of the mass, what's all that about then?

The ecumenical movement did, in a rather "all sing Kumbaya and play nice" way.

I also wish to report that my spell checker wants to convert "Kumbaya" to "Jambalaya."

Another way forward might be for all denominations to give greater centrality to "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever beleiveth in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life." Then adopt a live-and-let-live approach to what other forms and show other believers want to tack onto that.

As was mentioned in another context, "In my father's house there are many rooms."

Protestantism arose and became a big deal in a cultural and political movement. Germany was poor and money was flying to Rome instead of staying to help the poor. Princes had a huge financial gain in converting to Protestantism.

If political and cultural stars align I could see Christians re-uniting. The beliefs on hair splitting theological issues doesn't really matter to the average guy.

But we're talking about a huge event like the reformation and the 30 years war. Its not going to happen when the economy is good and we all have ipads porn cars and A/C.

People have to be hungry and desperate.

Yes, they're called the Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran churches. They signed signed a lot of joint documents, took a lot of pictures and spoke a lot of words, but as always nothing really happened.

Truth is the only Catholics that are willing to let reunite are liberal atheists like pope Francis, and nobody wants to reunite with liberals.

Imagine the "normal" liturgy, but no religious icons or images. Then, you have a contemporary Christian rock band play some music. After that you have a reading or two. Then you have a sort of normal communion, but more Christian rock is played instead of hymns being sung or Gregorean chants. Then after the prayer, they go into "speaking in tounges" like pentecostal protestants.

It's pretty weird for sure. I normally attend a tridentine mass, or Novus Ordo, so seeing that was complete heresy. Lutherans are more devout these days it seems.

>what is the Nicene Creed

That sounds... heretical.

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Venerate the Immortal God Emperor!

>Parish receives a new priest.
>Original children's choir for the evening mass replaced with a parishoner who was a guitarist, used to release albums that generated a little money before indie bands had the ability to make a decent amount of sales on their own.
>Lot of additions outside of mass, such as retreats organized and events to go to.

>Years later, priest undergoes a huge change internally.
>Decides to reinstitute Latin mass during the evening mass, changes lots of things back to the previous way.
>Has made such good friends with the guitarist by this point though, can't let him go without damaging their friendship.
>Have masses in Latin with an understated six string guitar quietly playing in the background.

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