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What I'm going to talk about this evening

is the origins of Protestantism

and the initial Catholic engagement

with Protestantism in the 16th century.

So this is going to focus on

sort of broad historical sweep of Protestant origins and the Catholic response to Protestantism.

Now, I understand that a good number of your Protestants, we're sort of more or less evenly

divided between Protestants, Catholics. That's great. And that means that we will be able to

share our understandings and misunderstandings of one another.

This talk is mainly about the origins of Protestantism from a Catholic perspective.

Now, Catholics typically don't know much about the origins of Protestants, and have various assumptions which may or not

bear a relationship to reality or truth

in their understanding of Protestant.

Typically, Protestants also don't know a lot about Catholicism

or a lot about Catholicism as it existed at the time of the Protestant

Reformation. They may have various assumptions about what the reality was, which may not

also be related to the truth. So I'm going to focus mainly on the origins of Protestantism.

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