[Hermann the Cherusker]

I have no objection to traditional republics such as Venice. I would favor Italy breaking up into its pre-revolutionary entities, with Venice, Genoa, etc. being republics, the Two Sicilies, Sardinia, Parma, Tuscany, etc. being monarchies, and the Rome area under the Church.

We need to move beyond the past and the present evil. It is enough to pray for the restoration of one Roman Empire with many autonomous provinces for each Christian people. We don't need a multiplicity of independent states at each other's throats again, but a single Christian commonwealth with a worldwide peace.

[royalcello]

I'm not sure that our goals are necessarily mutually exclusive. Was not the Holy Roman Empire an attempt at such a commonwealth? I tend to doubt that a permanent "worldwide peace" is possible, and would take the past "evils" over the present ones any day.