The Protestant Reformation (3)

At the close of my former article under the above heading, I asked the question whether the Heidelberg Catechism did not use too strong language when it called the popish mass an accursed idolatry. And my answer was that it did not. This I now wish to prove with a few quotations from the Confession which the Romish church formulated at the Council of Trent. But before I refer to the mass proper, I must call attention to the Romish doctrine that, at the Lord's Supper, it is not necessary that...