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Jiang's phrase for the Catholic Church acting like Europe's imperial administrative and cultural apparatus despite the absence of a powerful emperor.
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freelance imperial bureaucracy
Jiang's phrase for the Catholic Church acting like Europe's imperial administrative and cultural apparatus despite the absence of a powerful emperor.
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"...many ways the Catholic Church it's trying to be the freelance imperial bureaucracy of Europe. There's no emperor. The emperor has no power. So..."
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The Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and not much of an empire.
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