"So much of the Protestant tradition still remains that a great many people suppose that the chief marks of Catholicity are those which stood out as stains in the eyes of the last school of critics. Romanism is supposed to be made up of Popery and Purgatory and the confessional, with the queerest things thrown in, such as incense and rosaries and the images of saints.
But these were often the things most important to Protestants, not most important to Catholics"
G.K. Chesterton. "The Well and the Shallows".