The Pope, the Kings and the People: A History of the Movement to Make the Pope Governor of the World by a Universal Reconstruction of Society from the Issue of the Syllabus to the Close of the Vatican CouncilArthur, William
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The Pope, the Kings and the People: A History of the Movement to Make the Pope Governor of the World by a Universal Reconstruction of Society from the Issue of the Syllabus to the Close of the Vatican Council
Arthur, William
Catholic Church -- History -- 19th century; Papacy -- History -- 1799-1870; Pius IX, Pope, 1792-1878; Popes -- Infallibility; Popes -- Temporal power; Vatican Council (1st : 1869-1870 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)
She has the right to require that temporal causes, whether civil
or criminal, to which clergymen are parties, should be tried by
ecclesiastical tribunals. (31.)
She has the right to alter the conclusions of a National Church
Council, and to reject the claim of the Government of the country
to have the matter decided in the terms adopted by such National
Council. (36.)
She has the right to prevent the foundation of any National Church,
not subject to the authority of the Roman Pontiff. (37.)
She has the right to reject any claim on the part of the State to
either a direct and positive or an indirect and negative power in
religious affairs, and more especially when the State is ruled by
an unbelieving prince. (41.)
She has the right to reject the claim of the State to exercise a
power of _exequatur_, or to allow appeals from ecclesiastical to
civil tribunals. (41.)
She has the right to exclude the civil power from all interference
in "matters which appertain to" religion, morals, and spiritual
government. Hence she has the right of excluding it from
pronouncing any judgment on instructions which may be issued by any
pastor of the Church for the guidance of conscience. (44.)
She has the right to deprive the civil authority of the entire
government of public schools. (45.)
She has the right to refuse to show the plan of study in clerical
seminaries to civil authorities. (46.)
She has the right to fix the age for taking monastic vows both for
men and women, irrespective of the civil authority. (52.)
She has the right to uphold the laws of religious orders against
the civil authority; the right to deprive the latter of power to
aid any who, after having taken vows, should seek to escape from
monasteries or nunneries; and the right to prevent it from taking
the houses, churches, or funds of religious orders under secular
management. (53.)
She has the right of holding kings and princes in subjection to her
jurisdiction, and of denying that their authority is superior to
her own in determining questions of jurisdiction. (54.)
She has the right of perpetuating the union of Church and State.
(55.)
She has the right of subjecting the study of philosophy, moral
science, and civil law, to ecclesiastical authority. (56.)
She has the right of enjoining a policy of intervention. (62.)
She has the right to require the sacrament of marriage as essential
to every contract of marriage. (62.)
She has the right to deprive the civil authority of power to
sanction divorce in any case. (67.)
She has the right to enact impediments which invalidate marriage,
the right to prevent the State from doing so, also the right to
prevent it from annulling such impediments when existing. (68.)
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