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...authority of the papal council [Jesuit], Cardinal Bellarmine [1542-1621] said...
Some Medieval and early Modern Popes did claim papal suzerainty over civil and temporal affairs. But recent ones have not. Nor does Pius...
...Eminence Peter Cardinal Gasparri has been, since the beginning of the present pontificate, Papal Secretary of State, the official closest to the Holy Father. Recently it has seemed to some eager-eyed Fascists that the Cardinal's zeal for Fascismo has been insufficiently hot. At him went the Mussolini press unmuzzled. Fascist Secretary Farinacci charged him with having "displayed a vulgar demagogy." The Pope took notice, sent to the Cardinal Secretary a medal and with it a letter of supreme approbation...
Then in 1882 Leo XIII (who, while he was papal nuncio in Brussels, had noted the young priest), conceived the idea of establishing a chair of philosophy in the University of Louvain to counter-balance the disarray of ideas prevalent among its students. For this professorship, all praise and recommendations centred in the studious priest, Desiré-Joseph Mercier. To Rome he went; conferred with many, including Pope Leo himself; outlined a Thomist program of scholastic philosophy with such clearness and understanding that he won quick approval. At Louvain adherents of the new professor feared he might see too many...
...with headquarters in Chicago. It traces its episcopal lineage to the Ancient Church of the Netherlands, founded in the Seventh Century by a Briton, Saint Willibrord. Its modern strength dates from 1870, when there acceded to it many Roman Catholic bishops who could not agree to the doctrine of papal infallibility promulgated and accepted by the Vatican Council just interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War. Old Catholics insist on the peerage of the bishops, and further object to the stringently monarchial system of the Roman Catholic Church...