Historian Paul Johnson once wrote that sometimes the most important events in history are not those that happen but those that do not happen. From this point of view, he argues, the greatest event of twentieth century history was the failure of God to die.
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Closely related to the refusal of God to die, there is another great twentieth-century historical event: the failure of the Catholic Church to fold. One interesting research topic for historians would be to investigate all the abuses that fell on this battered institution over the last three hundred years: the lies, the myths, the discriminations, the insults, the calumnies, the neglect, the hate, the exaggerations, the persecutions, the robberies. The fact that the Church survived all this and is showing renewed signs of vitality might well go down in history as one of the greatest miracles of God.
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Closely related to the refusal of God to die, there is another great twentieth-century historical event: the failure of the Catholic Church to fold. One interesting research topic for historians would be to investigate all the abuses that fell on this battered institution over the last three hundred years: the lies, the myths, the discriminations, the insults, the calumnies, the neglect, the hate, the exaggerations, the persecutions, the robberies. The fact that the Church survived all this and is showing renewed signs of vitality might well go down in history as one of the greatest miracles of God.
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