So it seems, there IS indeed a reason for the Catholic Church to have both a political and religious system. And yet, not one Catholic so far as I have seen on this thread, either realizes it or admits it. Do they not know? Or care? Is Vatican City, as a sovereign state, indeed just so “small” that it is of no real consequence in the political systems of the world? Is it just a harmless system designed for their own protection against wolves at their door..or purposely designed, from the very beginning, as the supreme system of both religion and politics, an unholy alliance that has captured the imaginations of man all the way back to Babylon. “Let US build”.
“...or purposely designed, from the very beginning, as the supreme system of both religion and politics,...”
Yep. Designed that way by God, for God. Kinda cool, that.