All roads lead to Rome, and Rome leads to Jerusalem, and Jerusalem to a New Jerusalem

[Michie]

As social conservatives, we embrace Western culture and defend it, although what we mean by it is necessarily vague. The closest thing to it in the Middle Ages was a notion of Roman culture, sustained by the late form of Latin that served as the lingua franca for scholarship, religion and official communication across the continent...

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All Americans Are a Little Italian, Christians Are Spiritually Jewish