An awful lot of things the Papacy did was because folks criticized the Papacy. See, if ol' Martin Luther had just shut the hell up like his superiors in the Augustinians had told him to (or if they'd even just taken away his tack hammer) or if the Hank 8 had just Anne Boelyn'd Catherine of Aragon, why, a whole raft of troubles could have been avoided! And that feller Gutenberg, too; shucks, folks should have been writing things down in Scriptoriums like God intended, but nooooo, he's got to go invent movable type and make books cheap enough for 'most anyone to afford. Next thing you know you got people like Galileo and Tycho Brahe and Chuck Darwin and Voltaire (whose name sounds like one of the X-men) and Alexandre Dumas pere et fils writing any old thing without an imprimatur or a nihil obstat or even a look-see by the office of the Holy Inquisition!

Sheesh, I just don't know WHAT this world is coming to! Lordy, I must go lie down and fan mah brow!