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Confusing your religion and your politics tends to make for bad politics and worse religion. Throughout the history of the Church, popes have often been less than wise in political matters, most of them having no particular expertise or ability in such matters. Sometimes popes are thrust against their will into political questions that they would rather avoid. A prime example of this is the Church in Communist dominated Poland. Other times, as in the case of Francis I and Francis II Leo XIV, they gladly run into the political world where wiser popes would tread very carefully, if at all. Christ and Peter said nothing about the crucial political issue of their time and place, the political domination of Israel by Rome. Christ’s mission was to all mankind. Our clerics would do best to usually follow their example.
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Confusing Your Religion & Your Politics
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Confusing Your Religion & Your Politics