Apr 15 2026POLITICS
Power, Piety and the People: A Long‑Running Debate
The story of how church and state have clashed goes back more than a thousand years. In the 400s, a pope named Gelasius claimed that while kings ruled on earth, priests had the ultimate say because they promised eternal life. That idea didn’t settle things but it set a pattern that many later leader
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