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Papal Rule and the Breeding of Anarchy

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 12, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 11.

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Papal Rule and the Breeding of Anarchy

A CATHOLIC, writing from Rome, says that even if the pope were not the lamented “prisoner in his palace,” this would be “the case in any circumstances,” because “there is little doubt that if he went about freely, the pope would be assassinated.” And this because “the country seems to breed numerous anarchists.” How could thirteen hundred years of anarchy under the rule of the popes be expected to breed anything else than anarchy?