Institutions can learn to be good... but the first step is to, well, step on them hard enough to break their power to do evil.
Institutions can learn to be good... but the first step is to, well, step on them hard enough to break their power to do evil.
The Papal States no longer exist (not since the 1870s) and the Bishop of Rome can no longer have the Holy Office -- i.e., the "Holy Office of the Inquisition" -- instruct the police to kidnap little Jewish kids anymore. This particular Church got stepped on pretty hard, first by Napoleon and then later by the Italian nationalists.