Written with both teens and adults in mind, this simple text: - Plays down exact dates. After all, who cares that Rome fell in exactly 476 AD? Or was it 475 AD? - Dates most events by century. It's enough to know that Rome fell in the 5th century AD. - Gives the minimum context. Such as that, actually, the Roman Empire had been falling for three hundred years before the arbitrary date of its fall, after which it was still falling. - Faces up to the failures and sins of certain Churchmen. - Doesn't fail to point out the ...
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Written with both teens and adults in mind, this simple text: - Plays down exact dates. After all, who cares that Rome fell in exactly 476 AD? Or was it 475 AD? - Dates most events by century. It's enough to know that Rome fell in the 5th century AD. - Gives the minimum context. Such as that, actually, the Roman Empire had been falling for three hundred years before the arbitrary date of its fall, after which it was still falling. - Faces up to the failures and sins of certain Churchmen. - Doesn't fail to point out the greatness of many Catholics and the miracle that is the Church: Unwavering in the essentials of the Faith, inventor of hospitals and universities, patron of the arts, liberator of women ... and two-thousand-year-old survivor of its human weaknesses.
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