The Ghost of Conradin: An Appeal for Ghibelline Catholicism ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The Ghost of Conradin: An Appeal for Ghibelline Catholicism ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The Church has disavowed her ancient usurpations of the political. It remains for the Catholic to stop imposing these duties on her. Who is to say, once she has been thus unencumbered by the vain expectations of her own children for the war-leadership she should not provide, that she will not once more glow with the sanctity and miracles that distinguished her auspicious beginnings. On October the twenty-ninth of the year 1268, Christendom bore …