He was " a man of unchallenged repute for learning in his day, an argumentative but eloquent preacher, strong in his Protestantism, and fierce in his denunciation of'Romish falsifications'and'besotted Jesuitries'".
22.
In 1963 he led a march to City Hall in Belfast to protest because the flag had been lowered in respect after the death of Pope John XXIII . " This Romish man of sin is now in hell,"
23.
In his depositions relative to the alleged Popish plot ( September 1678 ), Titus Oates had represented Poole as marked for assassination, because of his tract ( 1666 ) on the " Nullity of the Romish Faith ".
24.
The terms " Romish Catholic " and " Roman Catholic " were both in use in the 17th century and " Roman Catholic " was used in some official documents, such as those relating to the Spanish Match in the 1620s.
25.
Theologians within the Anglican Communion make a clear distinction between a " Romish " doctrine concerning the invocation of saints and what they view as the " Patristic " doctrine of intercession of the saints, permitting the latter, but forbidding the former.
26.
Observers grew worried, however, that Ives had started to move away from the teachings of the Protestant Episcopal Church and was embracing " Romish " practices such as private confession to a priest and prayers to the Virgin Mary and the saints.
27.
Article XXII of the Thirty-Nine Articles states that " The Romish Doctrine concerning Purgatory . . . is a fond thing, vainly invented, and grounded upon no warranty of Anglo-Catholic revival led to restoring prayers for the dead.
28.
Awdely was strongly opposed to Catholicism, and wrote some verses to warn against its delusions, as a preface to " A briefe Treatise agaynst certayn Errors of the Romish Church, by Gregory Scot ", published by him in 1574.
29.
Just a year and a half later, after his father threatened to disinherit him, on Christmas Day, 1754, he reconverted to Protestantism . " The various articles of the Romish creed, " he wrote, " disappeared like a dream ".
30.
Accordingly, they had an arguably more influential voice than the recusants in the United Kingdom, and objected to what they considered the " reproachful " terms " Popish " and " Romish ", preferring the term " Roman Catholic " rather than the former.
