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Tradition Timeline

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Every quotation here is given word for word and links to the page it was checked against. Scripture is quoted from the Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition. The Fathers are quoted from the standard English translations published online by New Advent. Councils, popes and the Catechism are quoted from the Vatican website, Papal Encyclicals Online and the EWTN library. Three texts that those sites do not carry are quoted from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and the Fordham Internet History Sourcebooks. Three dots mark words left out. Square brackets mark a word added for sense or a Scripture reference printed in the source. Dates for Scripture and for many of the Fathers are approximate. The objections come from the Catholic Apologetics Project working documents. The short answers and the notes on why each source matters are a draft and have not yet been reviewed by the project editor. The Councils, Saints, Miracles and Scandals sections are first drafts built the same way and have not been reviewed either. Objections under Feedback are written by readers and appear as written. The answers under them are posted by the site maintainer and have not been reviewed by the project editor.

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