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Did the Roman Church Fall Into Heresy and Apostasy?
At the time of the Apostles, the Church at Rome is orthodox, and famously faithful: St. Paul praises them for it (Romans 1:8-9), and greets them on behalf of the global Church. Yet the Protestant case requires claiming that sometime, somehow, this Church fell into apostasy, or at least heresy. If you're going to claim that, St. Edmund Campion (d. 1581) has some questions for you:
http://catholicdefense.blogspot.it/2014/12/reason-7-to-reject-reformation-history.html
"When then did Rome lose this faith so highly celebrated? When did she cease to be what she was before? At what time, under what Pontiff, by what way, by what compulsion, by what increments, did a foreign religion come to pervade city and world? What outcries, what disturbances, what lamentations did it provoke? Were all mankind all over the rest of the world lulled to sleep, while Rome, Rome I say, was forging new Sacraments, a new Sacrifice, new religious dogma? Has there been found no historian, neither Greek nor Latin, neither far nor near, to fling out in his chronicles even an obscure hint of so remarkable a proceeding?"
http://catholicdefense.blogspot.it/2014/12/reason-7-to-reject-reformation-history.html