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Straightforward answers about Roman Catholicism for a Protestant audience. The Roman Catholic faith is one of the world’s most widespread religious traditions, yet the unique aspects of Roman Catholicism elicit perennial questions from adherents and outsiders alike. Such questions tend to fall into three major categories: historical backgrounds, theological matters, and personal relationships....

Certainly, the Catholic Church affirms the authority of the Word of God. But divine revelation for Catholics is not just Scripture, but Scripture plus Tradition. So, the written Word is an authority but it’s not the authority (sola Scriptura) as held by Protestants. Because of this Scripture-plus-Tradition formula, the Catholic Church denies the sufficiency of Scripture. According to Protestants, the sufficiency of Scripture means that it provides everything that nonbelievers need to be saved and
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