that some Latin bishops, through acquired wisdom, suspected that the (Western) Roman Empire was in the phase of collapse but chose to say nothing because (1) they knew they could not effect change, or (2) thought it wasn't their role to lecture rulers from the pulpit or letters addressed to their churches, or (3) realized through humility that they could be wrong and did not want to use their chair to speak about particular circumstances?
Or it may be, of course, that anything they wrote or said with respect to collapse did not survive or was not recorded.
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