Today's thing will mention not to the past of ancient Rome, but to the fact that it appeared to have descended from the arena of past without child. Did he leave the heir? And if there is simply a political-spiritual depositary: who was it and what are we now obliged to say about it?
So let's start with the provocative thesis that all that we inactive are present is the fruit of this actually unprecedented in the past of the Empire. Everything! We may seem to believe that the main heir to Rome are the Latin peoples, and above all Germanie. Franks with their Empire, followed by the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Created by the Saska dynasty and later settled by the Habsburgs. To any degree it is, but only in any ways. The Catholic Church became the actual continuation of ancient Rome, its rightful heir. He was the 1 who adopted this old civilization for subsequent ages. But he would never have achieved it if it wasn't for his unique institution.
And it became the Papal Office. You could say a single church. So the Pope is everything! In the past of the world, this possessor of the keys of Peter finds no equivalent. This is, therefore, a structure that combined Roman civilization with religion, actually referring exclusively to Christ. And He is besides as a historical figure the Church. 2 ideas, then: the centuries-old Roman statehood, order, and spirit merged in the Holy See with the sublime revealed religion. And it seemed so distant, hostile, or at least incomprehensible. There have been things in which for centuries there has been what is present called Latin civilization, and the West. Confession is always closely related to political life. She actually co-creates and sustains them. This has its expression in the structure of power, its methods of exercise, ideas and methods of implementation. Therefore, the conclusion can only be that without the interaction of the Roman Church with the secular power, in the sense of their cultural unity, what is sentimentally called the Latin world, actually ceases to be as a whole. Does this image inactive exist? And if not – erstwhile did he die? Of course, nothing dies suddenly. And although I am not a proponent of the determinism of history, as a alleged historical process, however, large systems frequently descend slowly. Stuck for centuries in a alleged memorial form or erstwhile they die, to any degree they instil their successors. Similarly, the Catholic Church, being Rome in a fresh costume, besides has a long past of descending from this arena. So let us effort to capture any symbolic dates.
The first signal was a Protestant revolt, which fundamentally struck Papacy with a fatal blow in the form of an ever-bleeding wound that was never able to heal somehow. Later came the time of secularization, the constant secularization of individual societies. Very symbolic was the liquidation of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806. A fewer decades later, a second German Empire was created, named the Second Reich. There was besides a constant simplification of earthly prerogatives The Pope in the territory of Italy, until the unification and establishment of a unitary state covering the full Apeninian Peninsula. Finally, the Church at the Second Vatican Council, facing this laity world, decided to throw off the last remnants of his Roman past.
Antoni Koniuszewski
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Think Poland, No. 29-30 (14-21.07.2024)
