Thus the idea of the papacy flows from that of a kingdom of God on earth.
My Lord Surrey mislikes all kinds of sermons, and loves Mr. Martin so well, that he stops his ears when Mr. Fox preaches on the dark midnight of papacy and the dawn of the gospel's restored light.
The very idea of a reconciliation between revolutionary France and the Papacy seems to have disquieted M.
But if Peter is the Church's foundation of rock precisely through his faith, that mutual relation between the inner catholicity of the Church and the papacy is no longer doubtful.
It is certainly deserving of attention, that precisely in the institution of the papacy the Church is designated by a name which affords an insight into her inmost nature.
In order to find the right answer to this decisive question, we must first more exactly define in what sense the papacy must be regarded as the bond of the historical unity of the Church.
Consequently, the papacy as guardian of the unity of faith, stands also in a necessary connection with the inner being of the Church.
It has been further argued that a Church of the Nations, which the Christian Church must be, according to its idea, is entirely inconceivable without the papacy at its summit.
The internal spirit of the Papacyat this time corresponded to its external policy.
In the same year, 1471, Francesco della Rovere was raised to the Papacy with the memorable name of Sixtus IV.
But the Pope looked coldly upon him, because the King of Naples, with rare perspicacity, had predicted that his elevation to the Papacy would prove disastrous to Christendom.
I Florence, like all Italian cities, owed her independence to the duel of the Papacy and Empire.
Della Rovere to the Papacy in 1503 changed Guidobaldo's prospects.
All the powers of the Papacy were directed to the suppression of heresies and to the re-establishment of spiritual supremacy over the intellect of Europe.
No less monumental in the plastic unity of his character was the monk Hildebrand, who for twenty years before his elevation to the Papacy had been the maker of Popes and the creator of the policy of Rome.
Empire in the Marches of Ancona, down to their final subjugation by the Papacy in the age of the Renaissance, is made up of all the vicissitudes which could befall a mediaeval Italian despotism.
II Florence first rose into importance during the papacy of Innocent III.
I have not room for the story here, but if any one wishes to know how the papacy made Buddha a Christian saint, he will find the whole story, with the proofs, in A History of the Warfare of Science and Theology, by Andrew D.
Now that is the church which was all but stamped out of existence by the fierce persecutions of the papacy two hundred years ago.
How many a godly conscience under the Papacy sought with great labor the true way, and in the midst of such darkness did not find it!
Thus the Papacy also will be a part of the kingdom of Antichrist if it thus defends human services as justifying.
In this way Innocent established the Papacy in Italy; sovereign, suzerain, protector or ally, he was the head of the Italian Guelfs and practically of Italy.
If the Empire could acquire Southern Italy, it would hem in the Papacy both south and north, and crush it to obedience.
It had supported the Papacy, as an oak supports the creeper that clings to it; and in its decline and fall it pulled the Papacy down with it.
It had become plain as day that the Papacy of itself, without the support of a potent secular power, was not able to maintain its dignity, nor even to enforce order in the very city of Rome.
Such a conception was purely Italian, and showed plainly enough that the Papacy had ceased to represent Christendom, had ceased to be the real head of a Universal Church, and had become a purely Italian institution.
In fact, the passing away of the Holy Roman Empire and of the European suzerainty of the Papacy was merely an episode in the general intellectual revolution.
This domain, included in the Donations of Pippin and of Charlemagne, nominally subject to the Papacy under the suzerainty of the Empire, was really in the possession of petty nobles, who knew no law except force and craft.
Therefore, when the Papacy had cut loose from the Empire and saw itself defenceless against the Lombards, it had no alternative but to seek help from the Franks.
Under Innocent's successor, Pope Honorius, thePapacy lay like a cherry between an upper and lower jaw, which watered to close and crunch it; and this extreme peril is the excuse for the bitterness of the Popes in the contest which followed.
The Papacy and the Empire approached their final struggle; both felt instinctively that the issue must be decisive.
He had not far to go to find thoughtful men who expected to see the Papacy collapse and die.
The Papacy was far more stable, for fundamentally it was a moral power, and got its energy from men's consciences.
What, again, was the temporal power of the Papacy but a sword embedded in a cross?
The Papacy was checked in its attempt to found a province of S.
But it had the honour of giving birth to Æneas Sylvius Piccolomini, who, when he was elected to the Papacy and had assumed the title of Pius II.
Footnote *111: It is curious to note the shameless zeal, astuteness, and cunning of the papacy in this matter.
The papacy was indeed shorn in part of its temporal lustre.
But the great reaction of the papacy was not only directed against the new truths; it waged war upon every thing calculated to afford them a disguise under which they might become dangerous.
To reach secret Protestantism, the papacydispersed spies throughout Italy, Ferrara being particularly attended to, as a known hotbed.
Nowhere, in short, was the papacy as such less respected.
All this went on while the course of the papacy was so scandalous to the least exacting moral sense that only the ignorance of the era could sustain any measure of reverence for the Church as an institution.
For fifteen years the stir of his movement lasted in Lombardy, till at length his formation of a republic at Rome forced the papacy to combine with the Emperor Frederick II, who gave Arnold up to death.
The special atrocity of the Inquisition in Spain was not even due directly to the papacy (cp.
It was thus natural that in the fourteenth century the Hussite movement should spread greatly in Poland, and the papacy be defied in matters of nomination by the king.
The position of thePapacy was moreover seriously affected by continued schism.
In Nuernberg, as in most other cities, the feeling was general that the life of the prelacy was degenerate and that the Papacy was a hotbed of abuse.
But I must avow that Frederic's views in all that concerns the Papacy do not seem right and proper.
Rich and powerful, their ambition urged them to further the projects of the Emperor, which in abasing the Papacy lessened the power of the temporal princes.
Hence the history of the papacy during the next century and a half is full of dreary records of corruption and wickedness.
Worldliness and ambition, revenge and immorality, cast a deep shadow over the records of the papacy at this time, until the century closes with the reign of Alexander VI.
Sidenote: State of the papacyat the end of the fifteen century.
The Bishop of Rome was ready to fall a prey to the Lombards, and the progressive papacy of Hildebrand and Innocent ran imminent risk of being extirpated at its root.
The literati stood against him as the Papacy against Frederick II of Sicily: a less open opposition, and one harder to meet.
His Holiness, Pius X, brings to the Papacy an entirely new element.
The Colonna and the Orsini were also at warfare, and when a member of the former family was elevated to the papacy under the name of Martin V, they despoiled property of the Orsini.
