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Philadelphia's National Constitution Center is featured prominently in
the celebration of America's birth. Earlier this year, Jeffrey Rosen
retired as its head. Though a law pofessor at GW, he has spent decades educating the public on constitutional principles of law in plain
language so that people may understand how to enjoy our liberty on a day
to day basis.

Um

A few days ago, the Center honored Pope Leo with a medal. Yes, I know
its novel that the Pope is an American. Philadelphia clais him as he
attended Villanova University.

But c'mon. The Catholic Church -- the Univesal Church -- does not have a reputation for being a promoter of liberty and free thought. The are
very much in favor of protecting religious liberty in countries in which Catholics are oppressed as a religious minority, but in countries in
wh8ch Catholics are the majority, religious will gets imposed via
civilian law. The Church itself is literally an Establishment. They've
always been their own European monarchy, except for those several
decades after Italian univication till Vatican City was retroceded.
Nothing caused more war in Europe than there shall be a Catholic monarch
on the throne who imposes Catholicismas the state religion.

Oh! They're not lie that anymore!

Really?

One of Leo's first acts was to ex-communicate that very prominent groups
within the Church that rejcted Vatican II and conducts Mass in Latin,
not the vernacular. This was after a long process but Leo did not
revert. He told Catholics not to take communion from them.

Many of our Founding Fathers were Quakers. There is a reason why they
were Enlightened. It was a century since Gallileo, and the Catholic
Church still had not completely released its grip on repressing
scientific advancement and thought.

It's not like those two Star Trek episodes in which we learned that some American imposed quick fixes in a chaotic society with misunderstood
lessons from Earth's dictatorships, but still...
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Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Philadelphia's National Constitution Center is featured prominently in
the celebration of America's birth. Earlier this year, Jeffrey Rosen
retired as its head. Though a law pofessor at GW, he has spent decades >educating the public on constitutional principles of law in plain
language so that people may understand how to enjoy our liberty on a day
to day basis.

Um

A few days ago, the Center honored Pope Leo with a medal. Yes, I know
its novel that the Pope is an American. Philadelphia clais him as he
attended Villanova University.

But c'mon. The Catholic Church -- the Univesal Church -- does not have a >reputation for being a promoter of liberty and free thought. The are
very much in favor of protecting religious liberty in countries in which >Catholics are oppressed as a religious minority, but in countries in
wh8ch Catholics are the majority, religious will gets imposed via
civilian law. The Church itself is literally an Establishment. They've
always been their own European monarchy, except for those several
decades after Italian univication till Vatican City was retroceded.
Nothing caused more war in Europe than there shall be a Catholic monarch
on the throne who imposes Catholicismas the state religion.

Oh! They're not lie that anymore!

Really?

One of Leo's first acts was to ex-communicate that very prominent groups >within the Church that rejcted Vatican II and conducts Mass in Latin,
not the vernacular. This was after a long process but Leo did not
revert. He told Catholics not to take communion from them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH48AUqWUxc

Many of our Founding Fathers were Quakers. There is a reason why they
were Enlightened. It was a century since Gallileo, and the Catholic
Church still had not completely released its grip on repressing
scientific advancement and thought.

It's not like those two Star Trek episodes in which we learned that some >American imposed quick fixes in a chaotic society with misunderstood
lessons from Earth's dictatorships, but still...

--- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2