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The Waldensians taught certain doctrines also held by the Catholic Church, but came into conflict with the Catholic Church by denying some of its sacraments or the manner in which they were performed; The earliest Waldensians taught the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist and affirmed the necessity of priests for the offering of the Mass. [25]
By the late 1180s, they were being pursued as heretics. This persecution only increased their preaching against the Roman Catholic Church. [4] The Waldensians developed a doctrine that forbids the use of weapons or of oaths, which led them to refuse any participation in Catholic rituals. [4] The Catholic hierarchy accused them of apostasy. [4]
Belief that three, rather than four nails were used to crucify Christ and that a Roman soldier pierced him with a spear on the left, rather than the right side. Attributed to Albigenses and Waldenses: Supposedly condemned by Pope Innocent III, but most likely never actually considered a heresy by said Pope. [40] Waldensians (Waldenses or Vaudois)
The Waldensians were mostly in Germany and North Italy. The Waldensians were a group of orthodox laymen concerned about the increasing wealth of the Church. As time passed, however, they found their beliefs at odds with Catholic teaching. [7]
The religious community of the "Poor Catholics" was founded by Durand of Huesca, a former disciple of Peter Waldo. Waldo had been excommunicated in 1184. Critical of certain practices of the Catholic clergy, Diego de Acebo, Bishop of Osma, viewed the Cathars even less favorably. In the early 1190s, he wrote Liber Antihaeresis against the ...
Innocent for example waged a novel campaign against the Talmud as part of the campaign against heresy, claiming that the Talmud was an invention of the Rabbis, and the Jews should be restricted to using Biblical texts for their faith. This was the first time that the Catholic church had tried to directly regulate the practice of Judaism. [7]
Fr. Dwight Longenecker writing for Catholic Answers has argued that Baptist successionism is unprovable, being primarily based on theological assertion rather than historical evidence. He states that its advocates too often ignore the heretical views espoused by the groups included in the succession, using only persecution by medieval ...
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