Category: History - Modern (1750+)
Guizot, speaking of the Christian Church, says: "I say the Christian Church, and not Christianity, between which a broad distinction is to be made." (Gen. Hist. Civilization, Lecture 11, p. 48.) The Catholic Church has little except the name of Christianity, while it is secret...
Whatever plausibility the creed and ritual of the Catholic church may throw around her religious pretensions, the fact is undeniable that she is a temporal power, claiming to be...
5. CHAPTER V. THE MONASTIC VOW OF SILENT CONTEMPLATIONSimilar in nature to the vow of seclusion and silence, and equally incompatible with a fulfilment of the obligations of reason and humanity, was the vow of silent contemplation...
14. CHAPTER XIV. PAPAL POLITICAL INTRIGUES IN GERMANY.Papal Intrigues in Germany under the reigns of Otho I--of Henry IV.--of Henry V--of Frederic I--of Frederic II--of Conrad IV.--of ALbert I--of Henry VII--of Louis of Bavaria-- o...
13. CHAPTER XIII. PAPAL POLITICAL INTRIGUES IN FRANCEPapal Intrigues in France during the Reign of Clovis--of Childeric III--of Pepin--of Charlemagne--of Hugh Capet--of Philip IV.--of Louis XII---of Francis I.--of Francis II--of C...
12. CHAPTER XII. PAPAL POLITICAL INTRIGUES IN ENGLANDThe design of ruling nations was clearly indicated by the principles upon which the monastic orders were founded. Regarding supremacy to the pope as the main substance of Christ...
16. CHAPTER XVI. PAPAL INTRIGUES RESPECTING THE UNITED STATES.Papal Intrigues--Catholic Persecution--Protestant Persecution--Catholics in the Revolutionary War--In the late Rebellion--Catholic Enmity to Civil and Religious Liberty-- An All...
10. CHAPTER X. POPES, THEIR PRETENSIONS, ELECTIONS, CHARACTER, AND ADMINISTRATIONSThat we may not commit the error of attributing to the holy mother absurdities which she repudiates, we will inquire what are her pretensions before arraigning her reason or jus...
15. CHAPTER XV. PAPAL POLITICAL INTRIGUES IN PORTUGAL AND SPAIN.Alphonso, in 1139, in the cause of the church and of national independence, subjugated the Moors of Portugal. The victor was saluted on the field by his army as king of the conq...
7. CHAPTER VII. MONASTIC VOW OF CELIBACYNature has organized man for the conjugal union. She has endowed him with powers adapted to its requirements; with passions that aspire after its pleasures and benefits, and wit...
6. CHAPTER VI. THE MONASTIC VOW OF POVERTYThe monachal vows which we have considered in the foregoing chapters were assumed by all the religious orders prior to the thirteenth century. At that period orders were inaugur...
9. CHAPTER IX. PAGAN ORIGIN OF THE MONASTIC ORDERS.--CONCLUDING REMARKS.We have shown in the previous chapters that the monastic vows are in conflict, not only with the requirements of moral goodness, but with the dictates of reason, the principles...
1. CHAPTER I. CATHOLICISM A POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONGuizot, speaking of the Christian Church, says: "I say the Christian Church, and not Christianity, between which a broad distinction is to be made." (Gen. Hist. Civilization, Le...
3. CHAPTER III. THE MONASTIC VOW OF PERPETUAL SOLITUDEThe religious Orders were the fundamental principle of the growth of the Papal monarchy. These orders assumed certain vows, the nature and tendency of which we will proceed to i...
4. CHAPTER IV. THE MONASTIC VOW OF PERPETUAL SILENCEA vow of perpetual silence was assumed by several religious orders; but it was observed with different degrees of austerity. Some monks passed their whole lives in profound sile...
2. CHAPTER II. THE POLITICAL MACHINERY OF THE PAPAL POWERThat the Holy Catholic Church is artfully constituted to subjugate all secular and ecclesiastical power under its authority, and that its object is not to advance the interests...
8. CHAPTER VIII. MONASTIC VOW OF UNCONDITIONAL OBEDIENCEAnother vow which was universally assumed by the religious orders, was the vow of unconditional obedience. By the obligation of this vow the members of the convents were subject...