The Real Reason the Catholic Church Still Runs on Roman Rules

Podcast: The Jeremy Ryan Slate Show · Jeremy Ryan Slate

Opublikowano: 2026-07-20

The Roman Empire didn't really fall. It just changed its uniform. In September of 590, Rome was down to 30,000 people rattling around inside a city built for a million. The Lombards were at the gates. No army, no treasury, no functioning administration. Just one man — Gregory, the new pope — negotiating with the Lombards, feeding the city out of church granaries, and paying the soldiers with church silver. The Empire couldn't do any of it anymore. The Church could. That's the moment the transfer completes. Not through conquest or revolution — through vacanc...