File this story about Cardinal Ignacio Velasco (QEPD) and the Venezuelan Catholic Bishops Conference under “Truth is Stranger than Fiction.”
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I hope we and history judge the Cardinal and the bishops within the context of those times.
The Pope’s authority in the Church is not and never has been absolute. The Catholic clergy within states have often rejected Papal directions on secular political matters.
Perhaps most notoriously, Cardinal Richelieu, when serving as chief minister to Louis XIII of France, sent French money and even French troops to the support of the German Protestant princes in the Thirty Years War.
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