Rulers are attempting to confiscate the responsibility of teachers and doctors. Underneath all other activities, this is the operational character of the times.
Several qualities deserve attention.
The responsibilities of teacher and ruler are unique and distinct. The same person cannot embody both capacities. However, the tenor of the times is to dispute this fact, as it is to dispute so many others, as well. Our people prefer their own plans to extant circumstances. Cognizant of humanity's pretensions, Church dogma since earliest times patently or latently asserted that both responsibilities, teaching and ruling, the spirituality and the temporality, are invested in bishops alone and, through them, in the lesser clergy.