An Analytical And Historical View of the Catholic Religion With Reference to Po
An Analytical And Historical View of the Catholic Religion With Reference to Po
P Anichini
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Not only the authority of the nominations to arch- bishoprics and bishoprics was vested in the first Consul, but the supreme direction of ecclesias- tical aflairs was exclusively entrusted to the same hands, thus still more consolidating the liberty of the Galilean Church. Nor did the Pope even attempt to ask for the restoration of monastic orders, a concession which on the overthrow of the Imperial Government, he so peremptorily extorted from the Catholic Governments of Europe. Pius VII. Sanct...ioned with the seal of the Church the political usurpations of Napoleon, whom he conde- scended to crown in his own capital, and of whose ambition he became altogether the submissive tool. Nor among the many specimens of his devotion OF THE POPES. I 15 to the absolute will of the French Emperor, must we omit to reckon the secularization of the famous Bishop of Autun, Talleyrand, whose marriage con- tracted during the convulsions of the Revolution, he condescended to confirm. But the time was fast approaching, when, wounded in his temporal pride, he would turn his submissive friendship into a ran- corous enmity ; and by the revival of the obsolete doctrines of the Church of Rome usurp the false glory of a martyr.
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