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The Pope’s Moral Authority

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 5, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 6.

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The Pope’s Moral Authority

LATELY, in advocating the restoration of the temporal power of the pope, Archbishop Ireland said: “The pontiff’s words must bear no possible suspicion that they are imposed by men who have no authority in things moral and spiritual.” But the pope himself has no authority in things moral and spiritual, except from those who give him authority by acknowledging him pope. And with them he can have just as much authority one time as another.