Papal Power Undermined in Italy
After the ending of the 1260 years of Papal supremacy, which expired in 1798, the power of the Little Horn was to be taken away and consumed unto the end. Dan. vii, 26. How strikingly has this been fulfilled in the waning of the Pope’s power in the various countries of Europe. What is most marvelous is that it should be the case in Italy itself. Yet a New York paper speaking of the Italian priests says: “All these priests, we are assured, reject unhesitatingly the infallibility of the Pope, as well as the infallibility of the Roman Catholic Church. Some of the prominent Italian statesmen are in full sympathy with the movement. All this indicates that the Church of Rome is greatly undermined in Italy—more, perhaps, than in any other Papal country in the world; and that there is reasonable hope that a large portion of the Italian people may ere long emancipate themselves from the spiritual rule of the Pope.”