“In the modern world, and certainly in the U.S. from the Pilgrims onward to the Bill of Rights, religious practice has been bound up in the idea—now the principle—of individual freedom.”

And it is precisely in the modern world that Christianity has consistently lost ground to secularism and, more recently, Islam. If his beef is with a lack of democracy, then he is at odds with all of Christendom during the period during which there was such a thing as Christendom. He should really reflect on ominous implications of that last sentence.

Why I abandoned Papism – By Hierodeacon Paul Ballester-Convolier.

In the columns of a Portuguese book review, I replied: “The reality is that due to this infallibility you are the only Christians who cannot be certain about what they will demand that you believe tomorrow”. My article ended with the following sentence: “Soon on the road you walk, you will name the Lord, vicar of the Pope in heaven”.