Islam blocked the papacy’s hoped-for reunion with the Mongols

Evidence

The society which geographically separated the Roman Church from the new Mongol power was also that which seduced the souls of the same Mongols from a possible Roman allegiance. All schism is error and all error was thought of as in a sense schismatic. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1072

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s geopolitics-of-grace theme from Midwife and religious-history material where a single geography determines spiritual allegiance.