The PCI’s Strange Reformation Commemoration
Rev. Angus Stewart critiques the Presbyterian Church in Ireland's decision to invite Roman Catholic leaders to speak at Reformation anniversary seminars, arguing that Rome's fundamental doctrinal errors remain unreformed and that Protestant churches should boldly proclaim biblical truth rather than pursue ecumenical compromise. The article catalogs Rome's historic heresies and contemporary failures, calling Reformed churches to faithfully expose false doctrine as the original Reformers did.
Rev. Angus Stewart (published in the Belfast News Letter, 29 September, 2017) In inviting Roman Catholic leaders to speak at its autumn seminars commemorating the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, Union Theological College of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI) raises a number of serious historical, doctrinal, confessional and spiritual issues. Rome excommunicated the Reformers, slew the martyrs and repeatedly anathematized (i.e., cursed) the blessed Reformation gospel of...