THE WORLD IS FALLING TO PIECES....


We can see things beginning to change.


'But of course, these “masters of the world” claim that these principles only apply to the “slaves”: “Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi” (“What is permitted to Jupiter is not permitted to the ox”). What is permitted to the powerful or privileged is forbidden or impossible for “normal” people.

This is strongly reminiscent of the distinction between ius divinum (immutable divine law) and ius positivum (secular law) in earlier canon law. Until the 19th century, there were canon lawyers who believed that agreements between a non-ecclesiastical entity (the state) and the Holy See had no binding effect under international law for the Church. As a divine institution, the Church could not bind itself to secular treaties in the fulfillment of its mission. The welfare of souls (salus animarum) took precedence over any secular agreement. If a concordat contradicted such a supreme goal, the Church was ipso facto not bound by it.

The religiously motivated political exceptionalism of the 19th-century “Manifest Destiny” is a crude copy of this idea. It states that the United States has a divine destiny to spread across the North American continent and beyond.






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