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The Pope and Liberty

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 18, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 45.

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The Pope and Liberty

By California Christian Advocate

THE pope is now posing as a lover of liberty. Those who welcome this liberality in the Holy Father should not forget that at the same time the pope talks so earnestly of liberty, he keeps in prison in South America good subjects of the United States, merely because they express opinions offensive to Leo's priests. Doubtless the defenders of the Papacy will say that it is the government that imprisons, and not the pope. That excuse is threadbare; it has been used so many times in the case of the Inquisition and of many other iniquities that it deceives no one who understands history.