Theres a Kingsley Amis novel called The Alteration (its about forty years since I read it) - science Fiction, an England without the Protestant reformation and what would still be outlawed - planes, cars, all kinds of other stuff - and didn't Giordano Bruno get burned for saying the earth moved round the sun, or something similar. And my own mother aged seven was threatened with hellfire for being the product of a mixed marriage.

Anyway its quibbling with the facts - the Papacy doesn't have a great record on being right about very much - let alone infallible.

And I think the yanks did pretty well in their new choice of President in the circumstances.