158 - City of God vs. City of Man - Timothy Flanders
The Catholic Culture Podcast
The Tension Between East and West
In the West, there was no emperor for a very long time until they restored the Roman emperor in the year 800. And so you just had the church power of the pope who claimed for himself certain prerogatives that the emperor stated was only given to him. This is what this is why the Greeks, when the Roman Catholics when the Western Latins begin to baptize these various barbarian nations and incorporate them into Christendom. For them conversion was part and parcel with expanding the Roman Empire. So like converting is not just baptism but it's also you have to become a Roman citizen. That's Roma as well. The same ideology gets reincarnated once again in the Anglican regime
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