A perfect example of an insular Vatican not seeing the growing fire all around them...
>> A perfect example of an insular Vatican not seeing the growing fire all around them... <<
Well, it WAS in Rome, quite many days’ journey away (and through the treacherous Switzerland). Certainly, the result would have been preferably if Rome had been as adept at hailing the many important truths of Luther as they were at condemning the errors. But then also the results would have been far more preferable if Luther had deviated from the Theses towards Rome a fraction as much as he deviated from them to oppose Rome, allowing himself to be manipulated by scoundrel lords who simply saw him as an excuse to abandon their defense of civilization, using him much as liberals used budget concerns in the 1980s to oppose defense budgets.