Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
ECUMENICITY
Etymology
Noun
ecumenicity (usually uncountable, plural ecumenicities)
A tendency towards co-operation with other denominations; ecumenism.
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