Would you like to see a return to the 12th-16th century when Rome controlled how rights were distrubuted?
Could I open up a tavern where I could smoke cigars and drink beer? would I have to fill out a 15 page "not-a-long-form-census-form"? Would the pope require me to license my dog? would the bishop require a background check and a three day wait before I got to pick up my new long bow?
What we call liberty looks a lot like more serfdom the freedom.
I don’t have to mention the 50 million unborn children that would have been much better off under the thumb of a dastardly pope than under the care of our modern theologically enlightened nation. Makes Geneva in the 16th century look downright welcoming.
That's exctly what I thought when I read the Pope's letter to the Ecumenical Patriarch! Well spotted!
"This is so cunning", I said to myself........."under the guise of a simple fraternal greeting for the Feast of St. Andrew, we have here a subtle yet ingenious attempt to turn the clock back eight centuries!! This letter is really aimed at distribution of rights."
Are we smart, or what?
Ah. The old “long arm of Rome”. Always SOOOO effective in the Middle Ages. Especially during that Great Schism thingy, and the Conciliarist crisis, and in all relations with Russia and Constantinople, and of course, how can we forget, Rome’s great success in stopping that Reformation hootenanny?