Pope will address Congress - Sack cartoon

[MADem]

60. The Holy Roman Empire was once a "state" too.

As was the Ottoman Empire.

Why is it impossible for those Roman Catholics to have the same 'sense of nationality' that drives ISIS to attempt to physically restore the Caliphate?

I think that the Catholics have reconciled the 'render unto Caesar' paradigm, and have no desire to physically reconstitute their "state," but the connection still holds in their minds. It also holds in the minds of people who once fell under the shadow of Rome (like Tudor England) and that is highlighted when people like Tony and Cherie Blair convert to Catholicism, and what drove the rumors about the late Princess Diana contemplating conversion as well. I was watching the Pope's mass in Philadelphia yesterday, and I noticed how his service shifted seamlessly from English to Spanish to Vietnamese to Latin, and the audience didn't miss a beat.