The history of conflict and mutual alienation [Catholic-Protestant] has caused a breakdown of trust, so that Catholic initiatives for unity, and particularly papal initiatives, are widely suspected of being cunning devices to restore Roman domination. In this situation the only Catholic initiatives that initially stand a chance of success are steps of humility that demonstrate that the age-old fears no longer have any foundation.
Source: Fr. Peter Hocken - Pentecost and Parousia, Peter Hocken - p. 100
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