Rome and the Papacy —— A History of the Men, Manners, and Temporal Government of Rome in the Nineteenth Century, as Administered by the Priests

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ISBN: 9781331348535 出版年：2016 页码：318 Petruccelli de la Gattina Forgotten Books

Catholic, and neither his book nor the one now pre sented to the reader is an attack upon the Roman Catholic religion. The right of every man to his belief is nowhere denied or called in question. The right which is disputed, by the millions of Italian Roman Catholics, is that of the Pope and Clergy of their own Church to tyrannize over them in temporal matters, to the destruction not only of the proper end of government, which, according to the ancient Egyptians, is to make life easy and the people happy, but of every principle of civil, moral, and religious liberty.