[xone]

While I enjoy the site, I disagree with this particular outlook. Many of FR detractors attempt to use his AS as a means to disparage what he taught in general by referencing the harsh language, when harsh language was the order of the day. To find harsh language in a bull from the period shouldn't surprise anyone. I also consider the tone of the bull consistent with an org that has lost its secular power for good, and is about to be used by kings and nationalists as a pawn in the ongoing struggle for empires.

While the examples the author used had no 'Catholic cyber defenders', there are plenty that espouse the same viewpoint. Watch any thread around here when the subject comes up. The historically challenged will be there with the accusation.

[edwinland]

All interesting points but none of them address the elephant in the room, which is that Nazis, Thomas Mann and a group of Lutherans, the Church of England and other prominent protestants credited Martin Luther with preparing Germany for the Holocaust, and this author’s reaction to that accusation was to attack the Catholic Church.

That says very little about the Nazis, Thomas Mann, prominent German Lutherans, the Church of England or any mainline American protestants and a lot about the author’s problems with the Catholic Church.