Does anybody know how the early Catholic Church (say 500AD and earlier) compares with the modern Catholic Church and with the Protestant reformation?
For example the prayers to the saints, papal infallibility, infant baptism, purgatory, priests forgiving sins, Mary being sinless etc-were these part of the early church?
Were the reformers actually returning the church to how it originated or would the modern church be unrecognisable to the early church?
For example the prayers to the saints, papal infallibility, infant baptism, purgatory, priests forgiving sins, Mary being sinless etc-were these part of the early church?
Were the reformers actually returning the church to how it originated or would the modern church be unrecognisable to the early church?