These days when problems seem too big to handle, I read another chapter in “A Distant Mirror”, by Barbara Tuchman. A chapter at a time is all that I can tolerate. The cover says the book is a narrative history of France and England in the 14th century but 350 pages and I am not there yet. The 13th century was dark enough being mostly doom and gloom, the Black plague pandemic, the strong preying on the weak with extreme brutality and everything had a price. Life was a short lived daily fight for survival for the vast majority of us.
In the midst
of all this craziness, The Roman Catholic Church was there selling free passes
to eternity, as if they were the gatekeepers. Some of us say that not much has
changed.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
