I like the idea of framing this more in terms of the global anti-clerical patterns of the last two centuries.  I think that overall the history section is deficient in properly portraying the Church against the broader patterns of history, instead focusing narrowly on this incident, and then that incident (this has been brought up by others at previous reviews too). To do this proper justice, would, as Awadewit once suggested, take a great deal of time and likely of research.