Breaking With the Past (Classic Reprint): Or Catholic Principles Abandoned at the Reformation; Four Sermons Delivered at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, on the Sundays of Advent, 1913

by Francis A. Gasquet

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Genres: Catholic, History

99 pages, Paperback

First published June 29, 2014

About the author

Cardinal Francis Aidan Gasquet, OSB, D.D. was a Benedictine scholar who specialized in Roman Catholic history, particularly of the medieval period, Reformation, and Counter-Reformation.

Reviews

[T. Okerberg · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fascinating read.

I'm going through RCIA and learning a lot about my religion. This book was an interesting glimpse of how things went down at the hands of Queen Elizabeth. The Reformation caused such an upheaval, making a right mess of things.

[Jimmy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great (but brief) look at what happened during the Reformation. Interestingly, it seems that the destruction caused by Vatican II shares its principles with these early Protestants, such as the destruction of altars covered in chapter three:

"Moreover, the destruction of the alters obviously emphasized the change which had taken place. The abolition of the sacrifice and the sacrificing priesthood made them obsolete and unnecessary. Bishop Ridley . . . directed the church wardens of London to pull down the popish alters and to procure in their place "the form of a table" in order "more and more to turn the simple from the superstitious opinions of the popish Mass. "