Osage Bluestem
Puritan Board Junior
Of course they are... Was the Catholic Church pagan in the 4-5th centuries? Did they have popes? I don't think that had started yet, and if it had it was just a bishop (nothing like what you see in a pope today). The Catholic Church in Augustine's time was not heretical. It was THE VISIBLE CHURCH.
Seems like you need to study church history a little more or at least understand that all pre-1000AD Catholics aren't all that bad...
Are you going to call all of the Church Fathers 'papists'? Anselm, Thomas Aquinas? (They are praised by RC).
To the best of my knowledge they believed in 7 sacraments, sacerdotal grace of holy orders, praying to the saints, and that the bishop of Rome was the successor of Peter and was the Vicar of Christ over the Church universal....so I probably would call them papists. I think the Church of Rome was corrupt almost from the beginning and truely advanced it's corruption under the Emperor Constantine.
I have these books at home in regards to views of the ECFs. It seems most of them were very diverse and very Catholic.
Faith of the Early Fathers, 3 Volumes: William A. Jurgens: 9780814610251: Christianbook.com