This question came to my mind when Pope Francis quoted favorably a 4th century bishop who hated commerce.
So the Pope who hates commerce himself and vilifies it every chance he gets also recognized the state of Palestine (does that include Gaza in his flat world theology?) along with the perennial Roman Catholic Jew hate, it is clear that Pope Francis has brought the world back to the 4th Century.
Much of the world, all of Latin America, the Philippines, parts of Africa and a few other places that are in the Roman Catholic Church are still in the 4th Century. There are also Eastern Orthodox countries wallowing in that milieu.
Then we have the Moslem Brotherhood, Hamas, Saudi Arabia and the Islamic State promoting Muhammad’s world of the 7th Century. Aggressively with tens of millions of supporters and modern weapons.
We have the Shia State of Iran with values from the first Shia State in the 8th Century. The Shia parts of Iraq and Lebanon are in the same century.
The world has a Papal constituency from the 4th Century, openly warring states from the 7th and 8th Century.
We just finished a century were the world battled the Germans with a 19th Century ideology that was a combination of Marx, Hegel and Joseph de Maistre. We also survived the Soviet Union and Mao’s China that were pure 19th Century Marxism.
Today, after defeating nations with the 19th Century ideology we still have a European and American Democrat Party and a President Obama in the thrall of 19th Century Marxism.
So what Century do we live in? We few who embrace commerce and the modern world have yet to get our own era.