If it works, do it.
No, only anti-Catholics call it the Dark Ages. But with today's educational system and media propaganda, who can blame you for spreading this misinformation.
Recognizing that you are usually well-informed on the issues and more than reasonable, I'll take that "Dark Ages" remark as a flip (and rather cute) response.
As any student of REAL history knows, they were not "dark." The slander-fix was emplaced by people who also characterize Franco as some sort of Nazi knockoff.
Same bunch who insist on the factually inaccurate portrayal of the Galileo story, and that Pius XII was a closet-ally of Hitler.
The list is endless...