What I do know is that when the Church had an equally disproportionate level of power over the individual they did fucking horrific shit in the name of God.
Unchecked institutional power is generally bad no matter who is playing the game.
quoting note1u6f…rth9“Having excluded God from public life, authority does not have to obey any transcendent principle and can therefore change, as it is changing, into dictatorship.” - Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
#truth