The Papacy’s Temporal Power

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 10, 1890

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 16, No. 10.

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The Papacy’s Temporal Power

The Boston Transcript says that the loss of the temporal power is a deprivation which will never be restored to the Papacy. To which the Catholic Review replies: "The fact that the pope has more than seventy times been forcibly deprived of his authority, and every time it has been restored to him again, does not seem to furnish very good ground for the prophecy that it will never be restored to him again."