[TomB]

Sometimes, a brilliant point is just hanging out there waiting for someone to grab it, as obvious as it is.

Congrats to Dennis for seeing it.

A devastating defense of the Pope.

[ClaireSolt]

Most such criticism is anticlericalism. Totaliarian leftists object to "the power of religion and the prestige of the papacy", because it is competition, and they want all power thmselves in states they control.