Discuss the impact of the nineteenth-century political crisis (the series of the 1815 - 1848 revolutions) on the Catholic political Christendom and the events that led to the crisis in the preceding centuries.  What has changed in the “alter-throne order” to which the Catholic church “clung for centuries”?  Why did Jacques Maritain insist in The Things That Are Not Caesar’s (1927) that “it was five hundred years ago that we [the Catholic church] began to die”?

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Discuss the impact of the nineteenth-century political crisis (the series of the 1815 - 1848 revolutions) on the Catholic political Christendom and the events that led to the crisis in the preceding centuries.  What has changed in the “alter-throne order” to which the Catholic church “clung for centuries”?  Why did Jacques Maritain insist in The Things That Are Not Caesar’s (1927) that “it was five hundred years ago that we [the Catholic church] began to die”?