In this article you will see the BBC in passing referring to 'droit de seigneur' as historical fact, when practically all scholars are agreed it is a relatively recent fiction.
This may just be laziness and ignorance, but I think it reflects something else: an assumption that those people back then, in medieval times when Christendom held sway, were ignorant, barbaric and hypocritical, while we today....
Gavin Ashenden on why Anglicans are wrong & why we must stand with our
priests
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Gavin gives a particularly excellent explanation of why the only place to
be to be close to Jesus is the Catholic Church in this, our latest Catholic
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4 hours ago
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