nigelswift wrote:
and
“If those temples are well built, it is requisite that they be converted from the worship of devils to the service of the true God” [Letter from Pope Gregory to Augustine on conversion of the heathens 601 AD]
.... and now, half of them are bingo halls so the devil has them back.
and , another point from Gregory showing his political thinking . "the nation, seeing that their pagan temples
are not destroyed, may remove error from their
hearts, and knowing and adoring the true God,
may the more familiarly resort to the places
to which they have been accustomed."