The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.
The problem for Rome, then, is how and when the intervention should be done with a sense of the possibility of going too far in limiting the freedom of theologians. This is not an easy time - neither for Rome nor for the theologians.
If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.
The principle of tolerance and respect for freedom promoted by the reforms of the Second Vatican Council are today being manipulated and erroneously taken too far.
What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome.
Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
And this speaks to the larger problem that no one wants to talk about: the restoration of the Roman rite is a precondition for a long-term fix for the problem.
Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.
Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome.