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The Pope no Longer a Temporal Sovereign

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 25, 1875

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 46, No. 21.

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The Pope no Longer a Temporal Sovereign.

By Uriah Smith

THE following item shows that the last prop which the old lady of the Tiber has had to lean upon is now knocked from under, and the last shadow of a claim on the part of the papacy to temporal power has departed:—
“The French government has decided that the pope is no longer a temporal sovereign, and has no right to grant titles.” U. S.