Daniel 7: 25 And he shall speak great words against the most High… 2 Thessalonians 2: 4 Who...

Daniel 7:25And he shall speak great words against the most High…

2 Thessalonians 2:4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

Revelation 13:5And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.

6And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, and His tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MAN OF SIN

‘2. That the Roman pontiff alone is justly styled universal…

6. That no person… may live under the same roof with one excommunicated by the Pope…

9. That all princes should kiss his feet only…

19. That he can be judged by no one…

22. That the Roman Church never erred, nor will it, according to the scripture, ever err…’

Gregory VII (Pope Hildebrand, held office April 1073 to May 1085), ‘The Dictates of Hildebrand’

OPPOSES AND EXALTS HIMSELF ABOVE GOD

‘They cannot tolerate an equal, they will not desist until they have trampled all things under their feet, and until they sit in the temple of God, and until they are exalted above all that is worshipped...

He who is servant of servants, desires to be lord of lords, just as if he were God...

He speaks great things as if he were truly God.

...

He sits in the temple of God, and has dominion far and wide.’

Eberhard II, Archbishop of Salzburg, speech at Council of Ratisbon, 1240


‘The pope is as it were God on earth, sole sovereign of the faithful of Christ, chief king of kings, having plenitude of power, to whom has been intrusted by the omnipotent God direction not only of the earthly but also of the heavenly kingdom.’

Translated from Lucius Ferraris, Prompta Bibliotheca, article ‘Papa’ (‘The Pope’), II, volume VI, pages 26-29, 1755

‘For thou art the shepherd, thou art the physician, thou art the director, thou art the husbandman; finally, thou art another God on Earth.’

Christopher Marcellus, Oration in the fifth Lateran Council, session IV (1512), as quoted in Mansi (editor), ‘Sacrorum Conciliorum’, volume 32, Col. 761


‘We define that the Holy Apostolic See [Vatican] and the Roman Pontiff hold the primacy over the whole world.’

Council of Trent, Decree, quoted in Philippe Labbe and Gabriel Cossart, ‘The Most Holy Councils’, volume 13, Col. 1167

‘Christ entrusted His office to the chief pontiff… but all power in heaven and in earth has been given to Christ… therefore the chief pontiff, who is His vicar, will have this power.’

Corpus Juris Canonici, 1555 edition, volume 3, ‘Extravagantes Communes’, book 1, chapter 1, Col. 29


‘Does he not show himself above angels, whose judge he boasts he has been appointed, when he claims he has the right to rule over them as his subjects?

Innocent IV. (C. Canonum): “Every creature is subject to the author of the canons, who is also the vicar of the Creator; whose power was created greater than all power, extending itself to heavenly things, earthly things and to things of the underworld, so that all knees are bent to him,” etc. (Anton. Summ., p.3, l.22, c.5).’

Francis Turretin, ‘The 7th Disputation - Whether It Can Be Proven The Pope of Rome is AntiChrist’, chapter 25, 1664


‘Clement VI., in his Bull pertaining to the Jubilee year, ordered the blessed angels to carry directly to heaven the souls of those who, after having stated they were coming to Rome for the purpose of pilgrimage, died on the journey, but had by chance confessed on the way:

“We directly order the angels of Paradise to lead the soul into the glory of Paradise after that soul has been completely absolved from Purgatory.”

This extract is from the works of Balseus on the life of Clement VI.’



‘Glossa of Canon Law Extr. John 22 expressly calls the Pope our Lord God.

Pope Nicholas, as cited by Gratian (Dist. 69, chapter 7) says, “It is manifestly and satisfactorily shown that the Pope can neither be bound by the secular power nor loosed by it, since it is self-evident that God cannot be judged by men.”

‘Stapleton (in Preface to Gregory, chap. 16, Princip. Doctrin.), names the Pope “the best, the greatest, and most supreme Spirit on earth.”

P. Blond. (1.3., To a Restored Rome) said, “All leaders of the world honor and worship the Pope as the highest God.”’



‘(Augustin. Triump. question 6, 1; Tiber. Deci., vol.3, respon.14, numer.57; Menoch. cons.51, numer.13), “The Pope has divine status. Whatever he approves or disapproves, all must approve or disapprove.”

(Gloss. Dist.19), “No one should question the Pope, even if he should lead innumerable people headlong into hell with him.”

(Dist.40), “The Pope holds all mortals subject to himself. Every human creature is under obedience to him.”

Extra. De Major. C. Unam sanctam, and innumerable similar statements which would be too tedious to mention.’



‘Nor can these impious blasphemies be excused under the pretext that they are but oratories or panegyric hyperbole not to be taken for dogmas.

For not only do these have the consent of the highest approved teachers of their Church, (in addition to the fact that they were introduced through Popes’ councils into canon law and common books), but who doesn’t know such epithets have been attributed to the Popes by their flatterers.

The Popes not only did not refuse such names, but they willingly endorse them, not once seeing fit to delete these blasphemous and contumely appellations from their authoritative books.’



‘Indeed, in claiming the right to appropriate the name of God to themselves, they not only claim the attributes of God, but also lay claim to the titles of Christ the Lord.

Nor does Bellarmine deny this (de Concil. Auctorit.1.ii.c.17), “All names,” he says, “which are attributed to Christ in the Scriptures, from which source it is established that he rules over the Church, are all attributed to the Pontiff.”

Hence, if Christ is called Head, Spouse, Foundation, supreme Shepherd of the Church, Prince of the faith, Lord of the House of God, Lion from the tribe of Judah, Root of David, etc., everyone generally acknowledges that these names are no less attributed to the Pontiff.’



‘In vain does one introduce the argument that the Pope also calls himself the servant of servants. Of what benefit is it for the Pontiff to use feigned humility in calling himself the servant of servants, when in reality he proves himself to be insufferably prideful by claiming the authority of the Lord of Lords?

This is how Trevirensis Præsulum views it, in a complaint about Pope Nicholas, in his works, Aventi. Annal.4, “You display the mask of the Pontiff before you, but you exercise tyranny; under the clothing of a shepherd we sense a wolf.

The title, Pope, misrepresents you as parent, for by your deeds you show yourself as Jupiter. Although you say you are the servant of servants, you also assert yourself to be the Lord of Lords,” etc.’



‘Two persons I find in scripture charged for usurping divine honours. The one, Herod Agrippa, who was smitten by an angel for not giving God the glory, when the people cried, ‘The voice of God, and not of man,’ Acts xii. 22: his fault was accepting what was ascribed by others.

The other is the prince of Tyre: Ezek. xxviii. 2, ‘Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said I am God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seat; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thy heart as the heart of God.’

His fault was taking upon him, as if he were God, to accept divine honours, to do those things which would make him equalise himself to our Lord Christ, blessed for ever.’

Thomas Manton, ‘Eighteen Sermons On Second Thessalonians 2: On the Description, Rise, Growth and Fall of AntiChrist’, sermon 4, 1685


‘We teach and define that it is a dogma divinely revealed that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when in discharge of the office of pastor and doctor of all Christians, by virtue of his supreme Apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine regarding faith or morals to be held by the universal Church, by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter, is possessed of that infallibility with which the divine Redeemer willed that His Church should be endowed for defining doctrine regarding faith or morals; and that therefore such definitions of the Roman Pontiff are irreformable [incapable of correction or alteration] of themselves, and not from the consent of the Church.’

First Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Christ (Pastor Aeternus, published in the fourth session of the First Vatican Council, 1870), chapter 4; quoted in Phillip Schaff, ‘Creeds of Christendom’, volume 2, pages 269-270, 1877


‘Sitting in the Temple of God, that is, speaking ex cathedra as Vice-Christ, the Pope has, in the most unequivocal manner, claimed to be god.

To this daring pitch of ambition and blasphemy has he carried the parallelism or imitation. The true Christ is god, therefore the Vice-Christ must claim to be God also.

In the canon law the pope is called God. (Decretum Gregorii XIII. Destinc 96, Can 7.)

Again he is called "Lord and God" (Decretales Gregorii IX., Tit. 7.) And again Innocent says in the decretals, speaking of the Pope, “God because he is God's vicar.“’

J A Wylie, ‘The Papacy is the AntiChrist’, chapter 15, page 45, 1888


‘We hold the place of Almighty God on earth.’

Pope Leo XIII, ‘Apostolic Letter’, June 20th, 1894

‘The Pope is not only the representative of Jesus Christ, but he is Jesus Christ Himself, hidden under veil of flesh.’

The Catholic National, July 1895


Genesis 1:14And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 15And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

Daniel 7:25And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws:


‘He ponders new counsels under his breast, in order that he may establish his own rule for himself, he changes laws, he ordains his own laws, he corrupts, he plunders, he pillages, he defrauds, he kills - that incorrigible man (whom they are accustomed to call anti-Christ) on whose forehead an inscription of insult is written: 'I am God, I cannot err.'

Eberhard II, Archbishop of Salzburg, speech at Council of Ratisbon, 1240

HE SHALL THINK TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS

‘The pope is as it were God on earth, sole sovereign of the faithful of Christ, chief king of kings, having plenitude of power, to whom has been intrusted by the omnipotent God direction not only of the earthly but also of the heavenly kingdom.

…

The pope is of so great authority and power that he can modify, explain, or interpret even divine laws.’

Translated from Lucius Ferraris, Prompta Bibliotheca, article ‘Papa’ (‘The Pope’), II, volume VI, pages 26-29, 1755


‘Ques.-Have you any other way of proving that the Church has power to institute festivals of precept? [holy days]

Ans.-Had she not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionists agree with her: She could not have substituted the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday, the seventh day, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority.’

Stephen Keenan, ‘Doctrinal Catechism’, 3rd edition, page 176, 1876


‘Sunday is a Catholic institution, and its claim to observance can be defended only on Catholic principles…

From beginning to end of Scripture there is not a single passage that warrants the transfer of weekly public worship from the last day of the week to the first.’

‘Catholic Press’, Sydney, Australia, August, 1900

‘Not the Creator of Universe in Genesis 2:1-3, but the Catholic Church can claim the honor of having granted man a pause to his work every seven days.’

S C Mosna, ‘Storia della Domenica’, pages 366-367, 1969


‘Now the Church… instituted, by God's authority, Sunday as the day of worship. The same Church, by the same divine authority, taught the doctrine of Purgatory…

We have, therefore, the same authority for Purgatory as we have for Sunday.’

Martin J Scott, ‘Things Catholics Are Asked About’, page 236, 1927

‘God simply gave His Church the power to set aside whatever day or days she would deem suitable as Holy Days.

The Church chose Sunday, the first day of the week, and in the course of time added other days, as holy days.’

Vincent J. Kelly, ‘Forbidden Sunday and Feast-Day Occupations’, page 2, 1943


Daniel 7:25And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

Revelation 13:7And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.


'Know that the interest of the Holy See, and those of your crown make it a duty to exterminate the Hussites.

Remember that these impious persons dare proclaim principles of equality, they maintain that all Christians are brethren, and that God has not given to privileged men the right of ruling nations; they hold that Christ came on earth to abolish slavery; they call the people to liberty, that is, to the annihilation of kings.’

Pope Martin V (1417-1431), letter to the King of Poland, as quoted in L. M. de Cormenin, ‘The Public and Private History of the Popes of Rome’, volume II, pages 116, 117, 1847

HE SHALL MAKE WAR AGAINST THE SAINTS

‘’The church,’ said Luther… 'has never burned a heretic‘…

I reply that this argument proves not the opinion, but the ignorance or impudence of Luther.

Since almost infinite numbers were either burned or otherwise killed, Luther either did not know it, and was therefore ignorant, or if he was not ignorant, he is convicted of impudence and falsehood; for that heretics were often burned by the church may be proved if we adduce a few examples.’

Robert Bellarmine, ‘Disputationes de Controversis Christianae Fidei’, Tom. II, cap. XXII, 1581-93


‘“And we do leave and deliver thee to the secular arm, and to the power of the secular court; but at the same time do most earnestly beseech that court so to moderate its sentence as not to touch thy blood, or to put thy life in any danger”.’

Michael Geddes, ‘A View of the Court of Inquisition in Portugal’, Miscellaneous Tracts, volume I, 3rd edition, page 408, 1730

‘The binding force of the laws against heretics lay not in the authority of secular princes, but in the sovereign dominion of life and death over all Christians claimed by the Popes as God's representatives on earth, as [Pope] Innocent III expressly states it.’

Michael Geddes, ‘A View of the Court of Inquisition in Portugal’, Miscellaneous Tracts, volume I, 3rd edition, page 408, 1730


‘The memorials, indeed, of many of her persecutions are now so scanty that it is impossible to form a complete conception of the multitude of her victims, and it is quite certain that no powers of imagination can adequately realize their sufferings.

…

These atrocities were not perpetrated in the brief paroxysms of a reign of terror, or by the hands of obscure sectaries, but were inflicted by a triumphant church, with every circumstance of solemnity and deliberation.’

William E. H. Lecky, ‘History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe’, volume II, pages 35, 37, 1879


‘The civil power can only punish the crime of unbelief in the manner and to the extent that the crime is judicially made known to it by ecclesiastical persons, skilled in the doctrine of the faith.

But the church taking cognizance by herself of the crime of unbelief, can by herself decree the sentence of death, yet not execute it; but she hands over the execution of it to the secular arm.’

Alexius M. Lepicier, ‘The Stability and Progress of Dogma’, page 195, 1910


‘The Catholic has some reason on his side when he calls for the temporal punishment of heretics, for he claims the true title of Christian for himself exclusively, and professes to be taught by the never-failing presence of the Spirit of God…

It is not more 'morally' wrong to put a man to death for heresy than for murder… in many cases persecution for religious opinions is not only permissible, but highly advisable and necessary.’

‘The Lawfulness of Persecution’, in ‘The Rambler’, 4, June 1849, pages 119, 126 (English Roman Catholic journal published from 1848 to 1862)


‘When confronted by heresy, she does not content herself with persuasion; arguments of an intellectual and moral order appear to her insufficient, and she has recourse to force, to corporal punishment, to torture.

She creates tribunals like those of the Inquisition, she calls the laws of state to her aid, if necessary she encourages a crusade, or a religious war, and all her 'horror of blood' practically culminates into urging the secular power to shed it, which proceeding is almost more odious--for it is less frank--than shedding it herself.’

Alfred Baudrillart, Rector of the Catholic Institute of Paris, ‘The Catholic Church, the Renaissance, and Protestantism’, pages 182, 183, 1908


‘Especially did she act thus in the sixteenth century with regard to Protestants. Not content to reform morally, to teach by example, to convert people by eloquent and holy missionaries, she lit in Italy, in the Low Countries, and above all in Spain, the funeral piles of the Inquisition.

In France under Francis I and Henri II, in England under Mary Tudor, she tortured the heretics, while both in France and Germany, during the second half of the sixteenth, and first half of the seventeenth centuries, if she did not actually begin, at any rate she encouraged and actively aided the religious wars.’

Alfred Baudrillart, Rector of the Catholic Institute of Paris, ‘The Catholic Church, the Renaissance, and Protestantism’, pages 182, 183, 1908


Revelation 13:15And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

16And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

17And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.


‘…no man presume to entertain or cherish them [heretics] in his house, or land, to exercise traffic [commerce] with them.’

Pope Alexander III, Third Lateran Council, 1178

‘… no man should presume to receive or assist them in selling or buying, that, being deprived of the comfort of humanity, they may be compelled to repent of the error of their way.’

Pope Alexander III, against the Waldenses, circa 1179

‘[It is commanded that] they permit not the heretics to have houses in their districts, or enter into contracts, or carry on commerce, or enjoy the comforts of humanity with [Catholic] Christians.’

Pope Martin V, decree issued after the Councils of Constance, held 1414-19

FORBIDDING TO BUY OR SELL

‘Ver. 17. And that no man might buy or sell, &c.]

…in a civil sense, as to trade, and exercise merchandise, and this was forbidden by several Popish councils and synods; the Lateran council, under Pope Alexander, decreed against the Waldenses and Albigenses, that no one should presume to retain or encourage them in their houses or countries, or "trade" with them; and the synod of Tours in France forbid any reception of heretics, or protection, and that any communion should be had with them "in buying and selling", as Mr. Mede has observed; and it was ordered by a bull of Pope Martin the Fifth, that no contract should be made with such, and that they should not follow any business and merchandise:’

John Gill, ‘Commentary On the Bible’ 1748

FORBIDDING TO BUY OR SELL

‘Bellarmine (1.iii., Of the Roman Pontiff, chap.2) says, "The Greek interpreters and Augustine are in complete agreement in their teaching that, according to Paul, the Antichrist himself is able to be recognized by apostasy."

So also do Suárez, Malvenda, and other of our adversaries agree. Therefore, the trait of rebelliousness is understood as being a singular and notable characteristic of the Antichrist.’


THE MAN OF SIN IS IDENTIFIED BY HIS APOSTASY

‘The Pontiffs would have us believe it is a political apostasy from the Roman empire referred to here. But that is impossible, first, because the apostasy is of a religious nature, not political, and second, because the apostasy in question is not one which need be called by a new name, because this apostasy is understood to be the defection from God, the true faith and religion once professed.

Paul himself explains (1 Tim.4:1): "The Spirit says clearly that in the latter times certain ones will commit apostasy from the faith."



‘Most of the Fathers support us on this point (Chrysost., Theophyl., Oecumen., Theodor.), the last of whom calls the "estrangement from God." Augustine concurs (City of God, book 20, chap.19), as does Cyril of Jerusalem (Catech. 11).

From the Pontiffs, Thomas, Lyranus, Alcazar, Suárez (tom.2, q.59, art.6, dist.34): "Although most Latins understand this to be about the defection from the Roman empire, nevertheless, it is more properly understood regarding the defection from Christ," etc.’



‘Malvenda, who writes expressly on the subject… states as the opinion of Ribera, Gaspar Melus, Viegas, Suarez, Bellarmine, and Bosius that Rome shall apostasize from the faith.’

Cardinal Manning, ‘The Present Crisis of the Holy See, Tested By Prophecy’, 1861


‘No one may possess the books of the Old and New Testaments in the Romance [common] language, and if anyone possesses them he must turn them over to the local bishop within eight days after the promulgation of this decree, so that they may be burned.

The lords of the districts shall carefully seek out the heretics in dwellings, hovels, and forests, and even their underground retreats shall be entirely wiped out.’

Pope Gregory IX, Concil Tolosanum, 1229, cited in D Lortsch, ‘Histoire de la Biblia en France’ page 14, 1910

FORBIDDING ACCESS TO THE SCRIPTURES

‘Like two sacred rivers flowing from paradise, the Bible and divine Tradition contain the Word of God, the precious gems of revealed truths.

Though these two divine streams are in themselves, on account of their divine origin, of equal sacredness, and are both full of revealed truths, still, of the two, TRADITION is to us more clear and safe.’

Catholic priest Joseph F Di Bruno, ‘Catholic Belief’, page 45, 1884

TRADITION PLACED ABOVE THE SCRIPTURES

‘The Bishop of Rome mounted the throne whence the Emperors fell, and took, little by little, the position rendered vacant by the desertion of the successor of Augustus.’

Duc de Broglie, ‘Histoire de L'Eglise’, VI, pages 424-456, 1856-66

‘The Captain who gloriously fills the place of the ancient Caesars.’

Editor of the ‘Acta Sanctae Sedis’, (‘Deeds of the Holy See’), V, page 324 said of Pope Pius IX (Catholic publication commenced 1865, declared in 1904 to be an organ of the Holy See, such that all documents it contains are “authentic and official’”

‘The Caesar who now addresses you, and to whom alone are obedience and fidelity due.’

Pope Pius LX, ‘Discorsi’ I, page 253

THE PAPACY CLAIMS THE IMPERIAL AUTHORITY

‘From the abandonment of Rome (by Caesar) was the liberation of the Pontiffs.

… [He cites 2 Thessalonians 2:7]

He was elevated to be, in his Divine Master's Name King of Kings and Lord of Lords.’

…

‘The abandonment of Rome… left them free to become independent sovereigns, and to take up the sovereignty the Emperor had just laid down.’

Cardinal Manning, ‘Lectures On the Temporal Power’, preface, pages 42-46, 50, 1862


‘The Popes called their acts by the same name as the Caesarean laws Rescripts and Decrees.

…

The notions about the plenary powers of the Caesars prevalent in the latter days of the Roman Empire had their influence here.

Dr Dollinger, Catholic historian, ‘The Pope and the Council’, page 165, 1869

‘Let them learn that they are subject - to our Throne, and to our commands.’

Pius VII, ‘Excommunication against Napoleon’, (Abbe' de Pradt, ‘Quatre Concordats’), June 10th, 1809


‘But because he is called the man of sin, here it cometh fitly to be inquired whether Antichrist be an individual person? for ‘that man of sin’ would seem to be some single person.

No; he is put for a society and succession of men, that make up the head of the apostate state. As one lion figured the whole kingdom of the Babylonians, and one bear the kingdom of the Medes and Persians, and one leopard the kingdom of the Grecians, Dan. vii.,—and there the fourth beast is the fourth kingdom,—so one person that succession of men that head the revolters from Christ.

So Dan. viii., a goat figured a succession of kings; so the Assyrian, Isa. x. 5, several kings in that empire; so Isa. xiv. 9, the king of Babylon, meaning not one but many.’


IS THE MAN OF SIN A SINGLE INDIVIDUAL?

‘So this man of sin doth not note a single man, but a succession of men, a body politic or corporate, under one opposite head to the kingdom of Christ: so the ‘man of God’ is put for all faithful ministers, 2 Tim. iii. 17; so ‘honour the king,’ I Peter ii. 17, series regum.

So o arciereus, Heb. ix. 25, ‘The high priest every year entereth into the holy place;’ meaning not one, but the succession of the order; and in reason it must needs be so here.

Because Antichrist, from his beginning to his end, from his rise and revelation, till his ruin and destruction, will take up such a long track of time, as cannot fall within the age of any one man, even from the time of the apostles till the end of the world.’


IS THE MAN OF SIN A SINGLE INDIVIDUAL?

‘Where-ever was there an Empire since the writing of the Prophecy, but that of the Roman Church, that was so Universal for 1260 years together, as to have all that dwell upon the Earth, Peoples, and Multitudes, and Nations, and Tongues, to worship it?

What Ruling Power, but that, so Ancient, as to have the Blood of the Prophets, and Saints, and of all that were slain upon Earth, of that kind for that space of time, to be found in it?

What Rule but that, had ever so long a duration in the World, as to continue set upon an Hill, much less upon seven Hills, for so great a space of time... ?’

Drue Cressener, ‘A Demonstration of the First Principles of the Protestant Applications of the Apocalypse’, preface, pages viii, ix, 1690

CHRIST OR ANTICHRIST?

‘There is an association which professes to take His place without warrant. It comes forward instead of Christ, and for Him; it speaks for Him, it develops His words, it suspends His appointments.

It grants dispensations in matters of positive duty; it professes to minister grace; it absolves from sin, and all this on its own authority.

Is it not, forthwith, according to the very force of the word, Antichrist?

He who speaks for Christ must either be His true ambassador, or Antichrist. There is no median between a Vice-Christ and Antichrist.’

John Newman, ‘Treatise on Antichrist’, written while an Anglican (Newman later converted to Catholicism), 1840


‘It is Christ or Antichrist.’

Cardinal Manning, ‘Caesarism and Ultramontanism’, page 36, 1874

‘If the Pope is not the vicar of Christ, he must be Antichrist; there is no middle view.’

Father Philip Fletcher, ‘Guild of Our Lady of Ransom’, February issue, page 229, 1914

‘If the Church of Rome be not the Church of Christ, it is the masterpiece of the Devil; it can be nothing between.’

The Honourable G A Spencer, in reply to Dr Cumming, undated, late 19th century


‘This is the doctrine of the Bull Unam Sanctam, and of the Syllabus, and of the Vatican Council.

Any power which is independent, and can alone fix the limits of its own jurisdiction, and can thereby fix the limits of all other jurisdictions, is (ipso facto) supreme.

But the Church of Jesus Christ (i.e., the Papal Church)… is all this, or nothing, or worse than nothing, an impostor and a usurpation - that is, it is Christ or Antichrist.’

Cardinal Manning, ‘Caesarism and Ultramontanism’, pages 35, 36, 1874


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