Vatican Assassins

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Chapter 29
The Jesuits – 1856 - 1871
The Crimean War
The German - Austrian War
The Franco - Prussian War
Assassination Attempted of Prince Otto von Bismarck
The Italian Revolution
Encyclical Quanta Cura with its Syllabus of Errors (1864)
Pope Pius IX Loses Temporal Power (1870)
Vatican I (1870)
Vatican Assassins
“I say I am liberated from all civil subjection, that my Lord made me the
subject of no one on earth, king, or otherwise, that in His [Christ’s] right I
am sovereign. I acknowledge no civil superior; I am the subject of no
prince, and I claim more than this – I claim to be the supreme judge on
earth, and the director of the consciences of men, of the peasant that tills the
field, and the prince that sits on the throne; – of the household that lives in
the shade of privacy, and the legislature that makes laws for kingdoms. I
am the sole last supreme judge [on earth] of what is right and wrong.” {1}
Henry Cardinal Manning, 1869
Quoting Pope Pius IX
The Tablet
“The world has no greater enemies to political freedom and Bible truth than
the 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 the scepter and the sword from the hands of the crowned priest.” {2}
William Cathcart, 1872
American Theologian & Historian
The Papal System
“This Pope, this foreigner, this Italian, is more powerful in this country than
any other one man, not excepting the King. He would use fire and sword
against us if he had the power, and he would confiscate our property, and
would not spare our lives.” {3}
Prince Otto von Bismarck, 1876
Chancellor, German Empire
The Jesuits – 1856 - 1871