Honestly as a catholic I see how they grew out of the spirit of the age, and though they did damage to the church they did express a certain Anglo rebellion to the middle eastern values that came from the bible and Catholicism in general, which if you remember was started in Rome which is basically a Mediterranean territory. So the latent Anglo rebellion to the catholic proscribed rules that cut across their genetic wisdom was an important point of inflection. Though its time for a rejoining of the church to European heritage values and some kind of synthesis if things are going to improve as we hope