St. Thomas of Canterbury

The previous article was but another chapter in the centuries-old contest between the papacy and the secular power for supremacy in the European Christian commonwealth of the middle ages. As has been repeatedly explained in previous articles and what we must always keep before our mind, if the history of the church of the Middle Ages is to be understood, is that, in those ages church and state were fused together, so to speak, into a Christian commonwealth, that, according to the papal party,...