Burn of the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Way back when, my college history prof said that the Roman Empire didn’t die so much as it slowly evolved into the Roman Catholic Church. My thought was that the Church “grew up” until heavy-handed dictators and blood-thirsty tyrants. That is what the Church understands. It does not understand freedom or folks who prefer to simply be left alone to farm and take care of their own business (and expect others to do so as well.)
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Such is my explanation for the Church seeming to prefer Big Governments and heavy “social spending” on the “little poor people.”
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The UN is the opposite of the Church.
1) It’s kingdom is on Earth
2) It certainly does not acknowledge Christ as it’s head
3) It has no fixed beliefs just those voted on by members
The only similarity is their claim to be universal (catholic). I’ll take Christ’s Church. At least that mess has survived 2000 years, and that only because of God’s Charity.
“the Roman Empire didn’t die so much as it slowly evolved into the Roman Catholic Church”
The Church as an organization did absorb some of the structure and governance of the Roman Empire; terms like “diocese”, “vicar” and “curia” originally referred to political subdivisions or personnel of the Empire. Additionally, the Eastern half of the Empire (Byzantine) survived another 1,000 years and periodic attempts to revive the Western Empire, as the Holy Roman Empire, continued up until the early 19th century. I would even argue that the European Union and NATO are, effectively, modern versions of the Roman Empire.
I wish NATO did nothing … they certainly do nothing good!
Annett has spent about 70% of his working life to date on the payroll of intergovernmental agencies (commonly in PR positions). That’s his rice bowl.
DJH:
In the 8th century Italy was depopulated by plagues and torn between rampaging Lombards and rapacious Byzantines. Further afield were Avars, Vikings and Saracens. Little farmers minding their own business was an impossible dream until the days of reliable firearms. Somebody big enough was needed to maintain order (read Dawson on this point) and sit on the territorial magnates whose ambitions added to the chaos. Enter the Kings of the Franks, who had just put down similar disorder in their own kingdom. One big warlord was seen as more manageable and more easily influenced in the direction of a Christian order than many lesser warlords. Call it a choice of evils.
In later centuries, the Holy Roman Emperor was more the leader of an alliance than a superior to the German and north Italian princes, his authority waxing and waning with the times and the character of the Emperor (and the character of the Pope).
A One World Government (aka the UN), where the top cream benefit at the expense of 99.9% of the world population is not Catholic. This Annett is suss. He may want to tally up the dead in The Ukraine.
This government staffer who brought down a conservative government in Australia because she went after her alleged rapist and drove the narrative that the conservative government of the day did nothing about her claims of assault currently lives in France on her government payout and guess what…? She works for the UN.
The UN attracts the wrong type of people, grifters like this woman. And you wonder why they are ineffective. Catholic it is not.
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/honoured-brittany-higgins-announces-her-new-career-move-as-an-intern-for-the-united-nations-in-switzerland/news-story/d25016a79cba680ba0af80be4be148ef?amp