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There are about 1,050,000,000 Roman Catholics in the world.

Evangelical Protestants share much Christian heritage with Catholics.  Both accept the basic Biblical teachings set forth in the Nicene Creed. The Nicene Creed is the only creed accepted by all three major branches of Christendom: Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox.

With so much in common, how do Evangelicals generally differ from Catholics?  

  • Silverball 1.) In accepting Holy Scripture as the only, ultimate, and final authority for faith and practice, superseding all Church tradition and teaching: Sola Scriptura (II Timothy 3:16).  

  • Silverball 2.)  In believing that Christians obtain Salvation by faith alone, apart from any additional works of the believer: Sola Fide (Ephesians 2:8,9). 

  • Silverball 3.) In believing that you can absolutely know that you are saved (I John 5:13).

Exception: Catholics who also hold these views are Evangelical Catholics. _____________________________________________________

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"He who does not know the Scriptures, does not know the power and wisdom of God; ignorance of the Bible is ignorance of Christ."  

-St. Jerome, Church Father and Translator of the Latin Vulgate; in the Preface to his "Commentary on Isaiah".

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20% of Catholics in America are Evangelical Catholics

A national survey in the 1990's found that 20% of Catholics in the U.S.A. (one out of every five) were Evangelical Catholics.  

Those who acknowledged being "born again" in the Evangelical sense.  Catholic terminology has historically reserved this term for Baptism, using instead for the experience of "receiving Christ" the interchangeably Catholic/Evangelical term "conversion experience". 

There have actually been more recent Surveys that have placed the figure as high as 30%. 

Much of this change (but not all) has resulted from the Catholic Pentecostal (also called: "Renewal" or "Charismatic") movement which began spreading throughout the Catholic Church in the early 1970's.

In America, the Roman Catholic bishops gave their approval to the movement in l969, and the few thousand Catholics involved in it then have since increased to untold hundreds of thousands, who gather periodically in local and nationwide "charismatic" conferences whose participants are sometimes numbered in the tens of thousands. 

The Roman Catholic countries of Europe have also become enthusiastically "charismatic", as witnessed by the "charismatic" conference in the Summer of 1978 in Ireland, attended by thousands of Irish priests.  

Not long before his death, Pope Paul VI met with a delegation of "charismatics" and proclaimed that he too was a pentecostal.

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Brazil:

"Religion and Ethics Newsweekly" (May, 2007) stated that 67% of current Roman Catholics in Brazil consider themselves to be "Charismatic".

They also stated that during the past two decades, over 20% Brazil's population have converted to Evangelical Protestant Denominations. ____________