vatican-assassins-by-eric-jon-phelps

364 Vatican AssassinsChapter 29The Jesuits – 1856 - 1871The Crimean WarThe German - Austrian WarThe Franco - Prussian WarAssassination Attempted of Prince Otto von BismarckThe Italian RevolutionEncyclical Quanta Cura with its Syllabus of Errors (1864)Pope Pius IX Loses Temporal Power (1870)Vatican I (1870)“I say I am liberated from all civil subjection, that my Lord made me thesubject of no one on earth, king, or otherwise, that in His [Christ’s] right Iam sovereign. I acknowledge no civil superior; I am the subject of noprince, and I claim more than this – I claim to be the supreme judge onearth, and the director of the consciences of men, of the peasant that tills thefield, and the prince that sits on the throne; – of the household that lives inthe shade of privacy, and the legislature that makes laws for kingdoms. Iam the sole last supreme judge [on earth] of what is right and wrong.” {1}Henry Cardinal Manning, 1869Quoting Pope Pius IX The Tablet“The world has no greater enemies to political freedom and Bible truth thanthe rulers of the Catholic Church. There was not a breath of liberty in Rome,nor one Protestant Church, till the soldiers of Victor Emmanuel plucked thescepter and the sword from the hands of the crowned priest.” {2}William Cathcart, 1872 AmericanTheologian & Historian The PapalSystem“This Pope, this foreigner, this Italian, is more powerful in this country thanany other one man, not excepting the King. He would use fire and swordagainst us if he had the power, and he would confiscate our property, andwould not spare our lives.” {3} Prince Otto von Bismarck, 1876Chancellor, German EmpireThe Jesuits – 1856 - 1871