If true for the RCC, true for protestantism, and any other human organisation or ideological movement. (nakedpastor.com)
This is why the state is a legitimate organ of human organisation, but it is also why the state derives its authority upwards from the individual and the family, via intermediate groups and institutions, and not the other way round. (faith.org.uk)
Some places suffered from human organisation (i.e. several stations made changes at very similar times), but there is enough nearby continuity to sort things out reliably for at least several decades prior to 1910. (variable-variability.blogspot.ru)