On 2/14/06, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Italy? Which is the only part of the world the Church ever > > ruled. The church was generally an adjunct to the state elsewhere. > > > > It certainly was not. Read your history! > > Bob >
There's a reason that the Pope or his representative (as the case may be, depending on the power of the monarch) crowned the kings of the West... cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson