dyer@wivax.UUCP (Stephen Dyer) (05/29/84)
Um, it never fails to gall me a bit when people (here, Jeff Sargent) bring up the excesses of the Church during the Middle Ages, and identify it as the "Catholic Church," as if the rest of Christendom were somehow absolved from any connection with the Church following the Reformation-- distancing themselves from the odor of corruption, as it were. This is not to say that the clerics and officials of the Roman Catholic Church behaved defensibly back then; of course not! But if the people of the Church failed back then, we all inherit the stigma of that failure. -- /Steve Dyer decvax!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbncca