Two-millennia institutional substrate; theological interface vocabulary
Plain Read: The Catholic Church is the longest-running organization in the documented record — about 2,000 years of centralized authority, financial networks, diplomats, intelligence services, and document archives.
Two Pieces of infrastructure that every later cycle inherited: (1) The Vatican Apostolic Archive — about 85 km of shelving with documents going back to the 8th century.
The Catholic vocabulary is changing right now (2001-2008): Vatican demonologist Corrado Balducci publicly argued (2001+) that UFO encounters should be investigated by science 'not as a divine or demonic incident, but a physical reality.' Vatican Observatory director José Funes wrote a 2008 newspaper…