tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post4218350751558287790..comments2024-03-27T02:55:10.109-07:00Comments on Irish Papist: It's a Funny Thing, But...Maolsheachlannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-46917502532313990692012-08-06T13:21:56.617-07:002012-08-06T13:21:56.617-07:00Oh, I wasn't attacking the medieval Church for...Oh, I wasn't attacking the medieval Church for Realpolitik or anything like that. I myself am very inspired by those instances in history where the Church has been unbending towards the secular power. It's just that politics and ethnicity and dynasties seem so interwined with ecclesiastical matters, for such a long stretch of history, that it becomes a bit of a soap opera to the untutored eye like mine.Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-64388416449573992122012-08-06T13:07:53.900-07:002012-08-06T13:07:53.900-07:00To be fair to Gregory VII, history would probably ...To be fair to Gregory VII, history would probably have been quite a bit worse if the Walk to Canossa had been in the other direction. I remember coming across a nineteenth-century Protestant writer who was not particularly pro-Catholic but remarked that it was better that mediaeval government should have been influenced by men who had some concept of law and could read and write, rather than being left to illiterate warlords. That's a bit more than just power politics.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16510001808658687585noreply@blogger.com