Questions and Answers

Roman Catholics (questions asked by them)

1. Why do you refuse to make the sign of the cross before eating?

2. Why don't you have holy images and statues in your places of worship as we have?

3. Why do you Protestants, except some of you, refuse to baptize infants?

4. Why do you refuse to believe in the saints?

5. Why do you refuse to believe that Mary remained always a virgin after she gave birth to Jesus?

6. Why do you refuse to believe in the Immaculate Conception of Mary?

7. Don't you think you are presumptuous by affirming that you are saved and that when you die you will go immediately to heaven?

8. John Paul II has asked your pardon for the persecutions of the Catholics against your predecessors; what do you think of what he has done?

9. Why do you refuse to accept the pope as the Head of the Universal Church and the successor of the apostle Peter?

10. I must be born again, and that is clear to me, but what do you mean when you affirm that I must be baptized? A new baptism? I have been baptized, I have taken communion and I have been confirmed, but this has been done according to custom and usage ….

11. Why did you take the apocryphal books away from the Bible?

12. Why don't you worship Mary, the saints who are in heaven and the angels of God?

13. Why do you refuse to accept the doctrine of transubstantiation?

14. Why do you refuse to believe that the Eucharist is the repetition of the sacrifice of Christ?

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