Catholic
 Mass 
is
 an
 offence
 to
 Christ,
 says
 Protestant
 society

Protestants should not attend a Catholic Mass under any circumstances as it brings shame on the Gospel, a traditional Evangelical Protestant society has said.

Writing in the 
April-June 2018 edition of the Ulster Bulwark, which defends and promotes historic biblical Protestantism, Rev. Peter McIntyre of the Clogher Valley Free Presbyterian Church, said that there can be “no greater assault on the Gospel” than the Requiem Mass and that Protestants should not at any time place themselves under the ministry of a Roman Catholic priest.

Doctrinal
 issue

Speaking to The Irish Catholic, editor of the magazine Wallace Thompson said: “There’s a doctrinal issue here at the heart of all of this. And I suppose we’re better to be open and honest with each other.

“I know within the ecumenical movement there’s a variety of threads of opinion,” he said, adding that many people find these doctrinal issues irrelevant but that it is important not paper over those “fundamental differences”.