Medieval papal shenanigans remind us how lucky we are. (posthumous persecution of Pope Formosus) (Column)

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: November 4, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

Pope John XXIII, a historian by training, was fond of saying that history is the great teacher of life. Unfortunately, it is a teacher with too few students willing to listen and learn from it.

Many younger African-Americans, for example, have no personal knowledge of the contributions to human rights made by Martin Luther King Jr., Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young and so many others who suffered verbal abuse, physical violence and imprisonment in the cause of freedom and justice.

The same could undoubtedly be said of many younger women with regard to the pioneers of the ...

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