Catholic-Evangelical Relations: Signs of Progress

Relations between Catholics and Evangelical Christians historically have not been close. American Protestantism was largely evangelical until the triumph of liberal Protestantism in the twentieth century. Since Vatican II Catholics have generally been more comfortable with Protestants from the so-called 'mainline' Churches, those established traditions stemming from the sixteenth century Reformation, each with a clear sense of its own ecclesial and theological identity and its' own historical relationship to the Catholic Church.