{"id":402,"date":"2013-10-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/billykangas\/2013\/10\/my-catholic-repentance-on-reformation-sunday.html"},"modified":"2013-10-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T00:00:00","slug":"my-catholic-repentance-on-reformation-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/billykangas\/2013\/10\/my-catholic-repentance-on-reformation-sunday.html","title":{"rendered":"My Catholic Repentance on Reformation Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Today is reformation Sunday, a day where protestants honor the reformation, and in particularly the story of Luther\u2019s nailing of the 95 thesis\u00a0to the door of the church in Wittenberg, where he was a teacher. On October 31, 1517 Martin Luther is purported to have nailed 95 thesis, all attacking the practice of indulgences in the Catholic Church, about which Luther wanted to debate. These were serious concerns about a problematic growth of corrupt practices related to an abusive understanding of the theology of purgatory within the Catholic Church. These 95 concerns were translated, and gave voice to many of the concerns of people throughout Germany. People took hold of Luther and soon he was at the center of a movement, which we know today af the reformation.<\/p>\n

I grew up Lutheran, and Reformation Sunday was always a big deal, and even though I\u2019m now a Catholic I still like to remember it. As a Catholic\u00a0it offers me a good opportunity to repent.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

The reformation is one of the great tragedies in the Church, resulting in thousands of Christian sects and a scandal of disunity in the global Christian church that continues until today. I long to see the church united, but I know that until the Catholic Church can live out the Gospel message consistently, there is little hope that our separated brethren will \u00a0return to the fold\u2026. and so I repent and ask others to do the same.<\/p>\n