Category: History - Religious
TO THE REV. RICHARD T. P. POPE, AT WHOSE SUGGESTION IT WAS UNDERTAKEN, THIS TRANSLATION OF THE PAPAL POWER IS INSCRIBED, AS A SMALL TRIBUTE OF RESPET AND REGARD BY HIS AFFECTIONATE FRIEND, THE TRANSLATOR.
CHRISTIANITY had for a period of seven hundred years, glorified God, sanctified man, and given consolation to the earth, before any minister of the gospel ever thought of erecti...
7. CHAPTER VI. POWER OF THE POPES OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURYINNOCENT III. in one and the same year, bestowed in the plenitude of his power three royal crowns; to Ioanice, that of Walachia²¹⁷ ; to Premislaus, that of Bohemia²¹⁸ ; to Peter...
2. CHAPTER I. ORIGIN OF THE TEMPORAL POWER OF THE POPESWHOEVER has read the Gospel, knows that Jesus Christ founded no temporal power, no political sovereignty. He declares that his kingdom is not of this world;¹ he charges his apos...
10. CHAPTER IX. POLICY OF THE POPES OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURYOF all the periods of modern history, the sixteenth is the fullest of tempests, of revolutions, and of important events. It shines with the bright lustre of Italian literature;...
6. CHAPTER V. CONTESTS BETWEEN THE POPES AND THE SOVEREIGNS OF THE TWELFTHWITH the pontifical power, such as Hildebrand would have it, not to gain a great deal was to lose a little. Now under the popes of the twelfth century it was not much extended:...
3. CHAPTER II. ENTERPRIZES OF THE POPES OF THE NINTH CENTURYCHARLEMAGNE had condemned gifts made to the church, to the prejudice of the children or near relatives of the donor. In 816, a capitulary of Louis I. declared all donations of t...
11. CHAPTER X. ATTEMPTS OF THE POPES OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURYNO pope since the year 1600 united to an energetic ambition talents worthy of seconding it. Henceforward the Holy See becomes but a power of the second order, which, scarcely ca...
5. CHAPTER IV. ENTERPRISES OF THE POPES OF THE ELEVENTH CENTURYA SHORT time after the death of Sylvester II. a patrician, consuls, twelve senators, a prefect, and popular assemblies, were seen to re-appear at Rome. A second Crescentius, the...
8. CHAPTER VII. FOURTEENTH CENTURYTHE residence of the popes within the walls of Avignon, from 1305 till subsequent to the year 1370, and the schism which, in 1378, divided for a long time the church between riv...
4. CHAPTER III. TENTH CENTURYPROTESTANTS take a malicious pleasure in pourtraying the court of Rome in the tenth century, and in extracting from Liutprand a contemporary author, the unedifying details with...
9. CHAPTER VIII. FIFTEENTH CENTURYFOUR great councils were held in the fifteenth century, all previous to the year 1460. The council of Pisa in 1409: it is not reverenced as an oecumenical one; it nevertheless,...
12. CHAPTER XI. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.IF the temporal power of the popes has subsisted later than the year 1701, it is principally because no one was concerned to accelerate its inevitable fall. Placed between Milan...
1. CHAPTER XII. RECAPITULATIONTO THE REV. RICHARD T. P. POPE, AT WHOSE SUGGESTION IT WAS UNDERTAKEN, THIS TRANSLATION OF THE PAPAL POWER IS INSCRIBED, AS A SMALL TRIBUTE OF RESPET AND REGARD BY HIS AFFECTION...