Concretely, Governments can do lots of things to make the church's life miserable, such as seizing its property, regulating the behavior of its clergy (as Mexico did in the 1920s), expelling clergy (such as the Jesuits, Mary Knolls etc etc), interfere with the Vatican's ability to appoint bishops or even to force the local church to split from Rome (as the Chinese did in the 1950s). SR
-------------- Original message -------------- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
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> On Sep 20, 2006, at 11:48 AM, EverYoung Global Intellectual
> Enterprises wrote:
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> Why? This pope is an agent of reaction, but why is the papacy
> structurally obligated to do this? The Catholic Church is rich and
> powerful - doesn't it have a degree of autonomy from capitalism/
> imperialism? What's the mechanism of enforcement?
>
> Doug
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