The loss of the Papal States was a great boon to the papacy and to the Church’s evangelical mission.https://t.co/9agwmqGGwK
— First Things (@firstthingsmag) September 23, 2020
"The purpose of the sacrilegious usurpation of Our rule is the destruction of the force and efficacy of the Papal primacy and eventually the Catholic religion itself."
— Rafael de Arízaga (@RafaeldeArizaga) September 23, 2020
Pius IX, "Etsi multa" (1873) https://t.co/y0Nzp0ZWWq