Popes and Monarchs
Those of you who know me know that I was raised Catholic. My wife was a Lutheran. When we got married in 1972 we joined the Episcopal Church as a religious compromise and have considered the Episcopal Church as our home church ever since. But Catholicism has strong ties that bind and old habits die hard. Many Protestant ministers will tell you that their best church members are lapsed Catholics. As they say…once a Catholic, always a Catholic. At heart, most mainline Protestants have at least a degree of interest in the workings of the Catholic Church much the same way many Americans have an interest in the British royal family. The Catholic Church was the mother ship of all Protestant churches just as England was the mother ship of the United States. The history is there, good or bad depending on your point of view. We may pretend to have no interest in a discarded heritage, but we still watch!!!! And we watched some history this past week with the election of Argentinea