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The Medieval Papacy (Library of World Civilization)
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A review in honour of the new Pontiff Pope Francis.... and to let him know, if he needs any reminder, that no matter how much the Catholic church looks a bit ragged and corrupt now, it ain't nothing compared to what it was way back when.
Yes, you do have cardinals who have spent their lives gay-bashing and who - shock horror - turn out to be gay themselves.
Yes you do have creepy paedos too.
But you DON'T have two separate Popes excommunicating each other like in some kind of computer game VIOLENT POPES - it's Urban VI vs Clement VII - BLAPPP! You're toast, Urban! Yah, Clement, eat your blasphemous eucharist and die......ZZZAZZZZPP!
I remember my friends mocking me for reading this book some years ago, but it was quite an exciting story.
Yes, you do have cardinals who have spent their lives gay-bashing and who - shock horror - turn out to be gay themselves.
Yes you do have creepy paedos too.
But you DON'T have two separate Popes excommunicating each other like in some kind of computer game VIOLENT POPES - it's Urban VI vs Clement VII - BLAPPP! You're toast, Urban! Yah, Clement, eat your blasphemous eucharist and die......ZZZAZZZZPP!
I remember my friends mocking me for reading this book some years ago, but it was quite an exciting story.
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great review but SP thinks, like GS, that the world's going all to hell, and actually, I think things are getting better...! We debate that in the comments thread.
And I do agree. Don't all the statistics back us up? Even the ones we haven't made up ourselves? I thought the murder rate was well on its way down, and the crime rate generally too. Thirty Year Wars are now Nine Day Wars - surely that's an improvement?
Maybe you can raise a glass later - Sláinte!
Plus on top of that, it so happens that we live in highly individualistic societies, and every now and again people wonder if there shouldn't be a slight corrective to that way of thinking. Perhaps. It may have gone just a leetle too far, emphasis on personal achievement turning into blatant selfishness. But that's a bit like the 19th century bringing up their girls to be sideboard ornaments and then moaning about their frivolity.
(Never let it be said that I don't encourage bad behaviour wherever possible. I fear I am more influenced by the Medieval popes that I had thought.)