5/4 PS - Also worth noting Acton is not asking whether *giving ppl more power is good or bad*, but how to write about them (as a historian) He rejects out of hand the Nixon defense (if the president did it, it's no crime)
I agree (and n.b. the habit of training younger bros for the Church often led to kings who micromanaged theology to an unseemly degree) But the bishops can't claim religious policy as the exclusive domain of their caste; yesterday iirc I compared them to weapons engineers
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Weapons engineers should be trusted because they know the answer to tough technical questions better than anyone else But you don't let engineers set the military budget, make declarations of war, or anything like that
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There is no way to formalize the delineations; you didn't happen to read the blogposts I did on "formal and informal capacities", did you? Whether a marriage is null is legitimately a religious q. Whether a baby is bastard or legitimate issue is a political/legal q. Inseparable!
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