Methodists are Protestants, not Catholics. Both are Christian churches that confess the Trinity, baptize infants and prize a holy life. They part on authority and the sacraments: Catholics have a pope, seven sacraments and transubstantiation, while Methodists have elected bishops, two sacraments and a real but spiritual presence of Christ at Communion. John Wesley, the Anglican minister who began the Methodist movement, knew these differences well. In 1749, in Dublin, he wrote a Letter to a Roman Catholic that sets…

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