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> The Catholic Church didn't survive the printing press. It's a little bit off-topic, but you have to live in a very different world to believe that, as the Ca
by seszett 4y ago
> The Catholic Church didn't survive the printing press.
It's a little bit off-topic, but you have to live in a very different world to believe that, as the Catholic Church is by far the largest Christian church still today.
The only religion that is larger than it, not by an extremely large margin, is Islam (not sure if you split Islam in its different branches).
The reality is that after a short initial resistance, the Catholic Church quickly turned around and embraced printing. I would argue that the Catholic Church is probably one of the most agile among the main organised religions and adapts rather well to changes. It pains me to say that, but it's clearly not going to die anytime soon.
- thrown_22 4y agoYou have to be completely ignorant of the history of the Catholic Church to think that today's version has anything on the Church of 1500AD. https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2015/07/papal-overlordship-of-england-the-making-of-an-escape-clause-for-magna-carta.html https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2015/07/papal-overl... One of the more colorful moments, when the Pope owned England. What we have left is the losers of a rear guard action which has been going on for 400 years.