The Jesuits: A Complete History of Their Open and Secret Proceedings from the Foundation of the Order to the Present Time |
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Page 3 - In short, he made his way from Venice, by Genoa, forthwith, but had to encounter many dangers before he arrived there, owing to the war that at that time was going on between Francis I. of France, and Charles V., Emperor of Germany and King of Spain. Among other adventures, he was taken prisoner by the Spaniards on suspicion of being a spy, and treated to the scourge. When at length he reached Genoa, he there had the good fortune to be provided by the commander of the Spanish galleys, a former acquaintance,...
Page 690 - The ecclesiastical power ought not to exercise its authority without the permission and assent of the civil government. 21. The Church has not the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion.
Page 748 - ... consternation at the same time, as, at the beginning of November 1871, the Bavarian Plenipotentiaries placed a proposition before the German Diet, that they should lay before Parliament the following project of law :— -" Act relating to the completion of the Penal Law-Book for the German Empire.—We, William, by the Grace of God, German Emperor and King of Prussia, order the following, with the acquiescence of the Diet and of Parliament. Individual article. After para. 167 of the Penal Law-Book...
Page 277 - ... after a prolonged residence in France and Spain, he went to Italy in order to visit Eternal Rome. Scarcely, however, had he arrived there than he deemed it most important to have himself presented to the Pope, and, above everything, to pay his humble respects to the Jesuit General Mutius Vitelleschi. He was not, however, satisfied with making the latter a respectful visit, but he declared to the General that it was his intention to enter into his Order as soon as it was possible for him to do...
Page 702 - In ccena Domini) was definitely issued, and at once read aloud from the pulpits of all the churches of Rome on Maunday-Thursday. But what were the contents of this Bull which henceforth had to become abiding law throughout the /whole of Christendom? Why, the Bull "excommunicates and curses all heretics and schismatics, as well as all those who receive, favour, and protect them, no less than all princes and magistrates who harbour in their countries other than...
Page 515 - Portugal, and as these latter were intimately connected with the subject under consideration, it is now time for us to direct our attention to the Court of Lisbon.
Page 689 - The prophecies and miracles recorded and narrated in Scripture are poetical fictions, and the mysteries of Christian faith a result of philosophical investigations ; and in the books of both Testaments are contained mythical inventions ; and Jesus Christ Himself is a mythical fiction.
Page 729 - ... of the Holy Council, and declare as a divine and revealed dogma, that the Pope of Rome, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when in his office as pastor and teacher of all Christians, according to his supreme apostolical character, he defines a doctrine to be firmly maintained by the whole Church, concerning faith and manners, as the divinely promised succour of the Holy Peter has been accorded to him, as regards that Infallibility with which the Divine Redeemer wished to endow his Church—therefore,...
Page 690 - Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion, in which it is possible to be equally pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church.
Page 78 - Portuguese anna, he proceeded, with the most frightful severity, against all those who offered any hindrance to the spread of Christianity, or who also dared to beguile the baptised natives back again to their old idol-worship. In this way, then, innumerable Brahmins, and more particularly the richest among them, lost their lives by the executioner's hands, or, at least, were exiled from their country in order that their property might be seized for the benefit of the Society, and thus, by degrees,...