The Catholic church promoted Traditions over Scripture during the Protestant Reform, however that has since changed. The Catholic Church promoted Traditions because they could “use Tradition to discourage developments, to silence questioning and critique, highlight only what favors the current party lines” (Groome 148). The Catholic church started to use Tradition because the fundamentalists were more likely to accept it because Traditions are fix and set and do not change. In the course of history and religion there have been many traditions that should not be repeated. Some of the traditions that need to be rejected are “—our practice and approval of slavery, discrimination against women, encouraging anti-Semitism” (Groome 153). Groome is