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Page 189 - Principum, quod confestim prodirent Doctores, qui docerent Pontificem esse dominum beneficiorum omnium ; ac ideo, cum dominus jure vendat id quod suum est...
Page 246 - They are, under the point of view of religion and philosophy, wholly rotten, and from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head there is no soundness in them.
Page xv - To us the Catholic Church and the Papacy are by no means convertible terms, and therefore, while in outward communion with them, we are inwardly separated by a great gulf from those whose ideal of the Church is an universal empire spiritually, and, where it is possible, physically, ruled by a single monarch, — an empire of force and oppression, where the spiritual authority is aided by the secular arm in summarily suppressing every movement it dislikes.
Page 45 - Celestine III. tried to loosen the marriage tie by declaring it dissolved if either party became heretical. Innocent III. annulled this decision, and Hadrian VI. called Celestine a heretic for giving it.
Page 14 - Enimvero falsum est, civilem cujusque cultus libertatem, itemque plenam potestatem omnibus attributam quaslibet opiniones cogitationesque palam publiceque manifestandi conducere, ad populorum mores animosque facilius corrumpendos ac indifferentismi pestem propagandam.
Page 6 - Civilta already quoted, it is clear from them that the Council is summoned chiefly for the purpose of satisfying the darling wishes of the Jesuits and that part of the Curia which is led by them. We propose to examine these theories in the following order : — first we shall take the Syllabus and what concerns it ; then we shall briefly discuss the new dogma about Mary ; and lastly we shall set the dogma of Papal Infallibility in the light of history.
Page 64 - ... for their force and authority depended on the consent of the Church, as expressed in the Synod, and afterwards in the fact of its being generally received. The confirmation of the Nicene Council by Pope Silvester was afterwards invented at Eome, because facts would not square with the newly devised theory.
Page 92 - Even if a Pope is so bad that he drags down whole nations to hell with him in troops, nobody can rebuke him ; for he who judges all can be judged of no man ; the only exception is in case of his swerving from the faith.
Page 74 - Fathers could the less recognize in the power of the keys, and the power of binding and loosing, any special prerogative or lordship of the Roman bishop, inasmuch as — what is obvious to any one at first sight — they did not regard a power first given to Peter, and afterwards conferred in precisely the same words on all the Apostles, as...
Page 18 - Ultramontanism, the very kernel and ruling principle of which is the consolidation of absolutism in the Church. But State and Church are intimately connected; they act and react on one another, and it is inevitable that the political views and tendencies of a nation should sooner or later influence it in Church matters also. Hence the profound hatred, at the bottom of the soul of every genuine ultramontane, of free institutions and the whole constitutional system.
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The Rapture, the End-times and the Millennium Russell R. Standish,Colin D. Standish Limited preview - 2004 |