Powerful tendency
In their editorial last Sunday, The Journalist warned us that “Power Corrupts and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely”. Their editorial, and the quote about how power can corrupt, reminded me about a conversation I had with a friend of Bhutan several years ago. This is how she explained the context of the quote by Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, an English historian and the First Baron of Acton (1834-1902): In 1870, the Catholic Church entered a crisis over Vatican's promulgation of the dogma of "papal infallibility" -- the dogma in Catholic theology that, by action of the Holy Spirit, the…