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The law that granted Catholics and Protestants the right to worship freely in Maryland was the Maryland Toleration Act, enacted in 1649. This legislation was significant for its time as it allowed for religious freedom and aimed to protect the rights of Christians to practice their faith without persecution. The act marked an early attempt to promote religious tolerance in the American colonies, although it primarily applied to Christians and excluded non-Christian faiths.
A royal charter to found a colony was granted to the English Catholic nobleman, Cecil Calvert, 2nd Lord Baltimore in 1632. The earliest settlers of the Maryland colony included both Catholics and Protestants, but Catholics held the key positions in colony government.
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It seems there might be a repetition in your question. The Edict of Nantes, issued in 1598 by Henry IV of France, granted the Huguenots, who were French Protestants, the freedom of worship and the right to hold public office. This edict aimed to promote civil unity and ended the religious wars between Catholics and Protestants in France. However, it was revoked in 1685 by Louis XIV, leading to renewed persecution of the Huguenots.
Except for the belief that there was only one acceptable way for a Christian to worship God, no beliefs were changed that I can think of. Science, exploration, mercantilism, and nationalism had already changed many Middle Ages beliefs before the Reformation began, and the power of the Catholic Church was lessened. The Reformation was about getting back to the basics of Christianity, and doing away with the corruption and ceremony which had become associated with it. The Catholics who became Protestants called the Catholics idolaters, and Catholics who remained Catholics called the Protestants heretics. No surprise that this disagreement became violent, but otherwise people stuck to their existing beliefs.
The Toleration Act passed on April 21, 1649 granted freedom of worship to nearly all Protestants but not to Catholics and Jews.
The Maryland Toleration Act.
The law that granted Catholics and Protestants the right to worship freely in Maryland was the Maryland Toleration Act, enacted in 1649. This legislation was significant for its time as it allowed for religious freedom and aimed to protect the rights of Christians to practice their faith without persecution. The act marked an early attempt to promote religious tolerance in the American colonies, although it primarily applied to Christians and excluded non-Christian faiths.
A royal charter to found a colony was granted to the English Catholic nobleman, Cecil Calvert, 2nd Lord Baltimore in 1632. The earliest settlers of the Maryland colony included both Catholics and Protestants, but Catholics held the key positions in colony government.
Catholics do not worship saints, the Blessed Virgin, idols or the pope. They worship only God. Now that is a crazy fact that many Protestants will contest but a fact nonetheless.
Toleration Act of 1689
In England, the Toleration act was granted by Parliament and approved by the Crown in 1689 to grant toleration to Trinitarian Christians, it purposely did not apply to Catholics, nontrinitarians and atheists. In Maryland a similar Act was passed in 1649, along the same lines, only applying to Trinitarian Christians - but not Catholics. In 1712 Scotland passed a similar act to allow greater freedom to Anglicans.
The Maryland law that granted Catholics and Protestants the right to worship freely is known as the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649. This landmark legislation allowed for the practice of Christianity without persecution, specifically protecting the rights of Catholics in a predominantly Protestant colony. However, it also established penalties for anyone who denied the divinity of Jesus Christ, highlighting the complexities of religious tolerance at the time. The act is considered one of the early steps toward religious freedom in America.
The Puritans were granted the right of public worship under the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649, which permitted freedom of worship for all Trinitarian Christians but not for Catholics. This act reflected the Puritans' desire for religious freedom while still maintaining restrictions against Catholicism.
Catholic AnswerThat depends entirely on how you are defining "worship." If you are using the word "worship" as most protestants in the English speaking world currently use the word, you are referring to the adoration that is due to God alone. In that sense of the word, Catholics worship God, and only God. As He is the only Divine Being, our Creator, and Eternal, He is the only thing worthy of Adoration. Catholics call this latria. So to answer your question, in that sense of the English word, worship, Catholics worship nothing besides God.
Catholics are wrongly accused on a regular basis that they worship Mary. Catholics are always quick to say that this is not true. Protestants see the high honor that Catholics give Mary as idolatry. Catholics are not worshiping Mary by honoring her. They are just following Jesus' example are honoring his mother. No Catholic can give more honor to Mary than what Jesus gave to her.
Catholics do not worship the Virgin of Guadalupe. Catholics worship God alone.