Can you be Protestant and Catholic at the same time?

Roman Catholicism will not accept you as Catholic of you do not share their beliefs. Protestant churches stand explicitly in protest to some aspect of those Catholic beliefs. Therefore you cannot be both protestant and Catholic.

Who can forgive sins in the Protestant church?

Only Jesus can forgive sins. “Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins” (Hebrews 9:22). Only Jesus shed blood for us by dying on the cross and since he was the only one who was sinless (1 Peter 1:19/2:22).

Is America Catholic or Protestant?

Roughly 48.9\% of Americans are Protestants, 23.0\% are Catholics, 1.8\% are Mormons (members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). Christianity was introduced during the period of European colonization. The United States has the world’s largest Christian population.

Who started the Protestant church?

Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms 1521. Martin Luther, a German teacher and a monk, brought about the Protestant Reformation when he challenged the Catholic Church’s teachings starting in 1517. The Protestant Reformation was a religious reform movement that swept through Europe in the 1500s.

Do Protestants have faith in the church?

He argued there that Protestants don’t have faith in the sense in which Catholics have faith. Catholics, he said, are docile. They receive the doctrines of the Church as true, without reserving the right to judge these doctrines; without reserving the right to decide for themselves whether or not these doctrines are true.

Do Catholics think for themselves?

It is the increasingly rare Catholic who receives the teachings of the Church the way Newman held to be the correct way, the way of faith, the way of docile reception. Just like non-Catholic Americans, Catholics claim the right to think for themselves about all things – including religious truth.

Do Catholics exercise no judgment?

This is not to say that Catholics exercise no judgment. No, they have to decide for themselves whether or not the Catholic Church (that is, the Roman Church headed by the pope) is the true Church originally created nearly two millennia ago by Jesus Christ.

What is the Protestant Reformation and when did it start?

Protestant Reformation began in 1517 with Martin Luther Originally, the word reformation (from the Latin reformare, “to renew”) suggested the removal of impurities and corruption from church institutions and people, rather than separation from the unified Roman Catholic Church (the word catholic meaning “universal”).