21. The same thing happened in the Catholic Church in the late 19th century
after Pope Pius XI wrote the Syllabus of Errors claiming that refusing to deny modernity was a sin.
If that teaches us anything, at least we know its self-defeating in the end; it neutered the political capital of the Vatican until the election of JP II in 1978 when he recinded it.
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