But we have no [Marian] apparitions cautioning the Church against, say, accepting the delusion of an Earth-centered Universe, or warning it of complicity with Nazi Germany two matters of considerable moral as well as historical import....Not a single saint criticized the practice of torturing and burning witches and heretics. Why not? Were they unaware of what was going on? Could they not grasp its evil? And why is [the Virgin] Mary always admonishing the poor peasant to inform the authorities? Why doesnt she admonish the authorities herself? Or the King? Or the Pope?
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