As I read about the revolt (needful and quite justified) that started in Germany, and which we know as the Protestant Reformation, it becomes increasingly obvious that we are delusional about what the Reformation meant to those first Evangelicals.
Maybe I’ll find a way to explain this. For now, I will leave it in these words:
I don’t think there is a Roman Catholic alive in North America who does not owe more to Martin Luther, for the things he likes about his life and even his reiligious faith, than he does to any given pope.
I have a conjecture, perhaps it’s obvious: The RCC in places where the Reformation was significant (Europe, N. America) is much different than the RCC where the Reformation was not as significant (say, Latin America). I would bet that an American “Papist” would feel more comfortable in a Liturgically minded Reformed church in the U.S. than he/she would feel in an RCC church in Mexico.