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Originally Posted by Gnist
You must mean German Emperors.
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Since they were invested as such, by the papacy.
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You seem to be saying that it is an intrinsically Catholic phenomenon, which nota bene I did not say.
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How am I saying that? No. If something, it is intrinsically Jesuitic. The Jesuits already instaured a social Theocracy in the highland forests of Paraguay and Brazil in the XVIIth century. In the last century, it was Jesuit priests who were responsible for the post-Vatican II Liberation Theology, which the Vatican has partially rejected and condemned in its materialist dialectic (marxist influenced).
However, theocracy is not intrinsical to Catholicism as the separation of the temporal and divine powers (State and Church) is the official policy of the Catholic Church: Give Caesar what is Caesar's, and God what is God's.
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