If Catholicism means anything, it is dyotheletism. The Spirit flows from the Father and from the Son. The Christian State and the Christian Church are equal partners in Eunomia - we are the true eunomians. Ludwig of Bavaria was as wrong as was John XXII of Avignon.
One definition of The State is "the monopoly on lawful force". This, I posit, is monotheletism so heresy. As Catholics, we should insist on a countervail, where the ordinary Believer, also, owns means of force.
Strictures apply, as in all things. A Believer should not ask for uncontrollable war-weapons like, say, a lab for infectious disease nor a nuclear bomb. For my part I'm not questioning the 1689 Bill Of Rights which allows to Protestants the right to bear arms. I do not subscribe to Protestantism but I appreciate they keep us honest.
It is, however, the duty of our Church to act as our advocates against State power. She must never take the side of the State as it seeks to disarm her Believers. The resident of Saint Peter's Chair, presently, has failed in this.
We've had a monothelete Roman Bishop before. We survived that heretic; we'll survive this one. It might take another oecumenical synod - like that which Pope Martin called to the Lateran against the Avignon of his day, in Constantinople.
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