Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. “Here reign the successors of the poor fishermen of Galilee,” Petrarch mockingly wrote, “they have strangely forgotten their origin.”(1) What prompted Petrarch’s memorable and philosophical critique was a seventy-year “spiritual” coup led by King Philip IV of France. Since the Church administered the sacraments of God’s grace and served as the true guardians of salvation during the Middle Ages, whoever controlled and dominated the papacy controlled the people. When King Philip moved the seat of the papacy from Rome to the southern French town of Avignon, it was just one of many conflicts that for centuries had existed between the State…
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The Bushtonian Court and America’s Captivity