Quote Originally Posted by macsen rufus
Obviously. After all I couldn't possibly be interested in whether anyone feels any conflict over their spiritual and temporal leaders being at loggerheads, could I?
Of course you can -- and it's even a reasonable point for discussion. But on a forum devoted to games involving an annoying personfication of the Holy Father, you're bound to generate flippancies too.


There are moments of conflict for US Catholics. We see the Holy Father as our spiritual leader and respect his opinions on issues that stand at the nexus of spiritual and physical. Most U.S. Catholics do not expect the elected leadership of our secular government to adhere strictly to the tenets of Catholicism. Many of us vote for political leaders whose philosphy coheres with our own spiritual beliefs, though most do not expect any elected official to adhere to the tenets of Catholicism on all issues at all times. Caesar unto Caesar and all that.

So some sense of tension, yes. A crippling sense of conflict, no.