| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The Papacy is an office to which you are *elected*, having proved oneself worthy of such promotion by study and piety. (Well, at least in theory.) Catholicism is certainly autocratic, I???d agree with that, or perhaps an example of natural aristocracy or meritocracy, as the Magisterium is strongly influenced by the College of Cardinals as well as the Pope.
|
