CHAPTER II THE TEACHING OF THE CHURCH WITH the bulk of the teaching of the Church I am ,not concerned, since it is the common teaching of Christianity. Let us rather consider what are the distinctive doctrines and practices of the Church of Rome to-day: the perfect outcome of eighteen centuries of the "supernatural gift," […]

SECTION II THE CHURCH OF ROME TO-DAY   CHAPTER I CATHOLIC SCHOLARSHIP THE reader may perhaps wonder if it is possible in such countries as the United States, England, and Germany for the writers of any sect to fence their people from the scholarship of modern times. If the facts of Papal history are as […]

THE POPES AND THEIR CHURCH A CANDID ACCOUNT BY JOSEPH McCABE (Author of “Twelve Years in a Monastery,” etc.)   FREETHOUGHT PRESS ASSOCIATION 370 WEST 35TH STREET NEW YORK 1, NEW YORK   First Edition1918 Second Edition (revised) 1924 Third Edition (further revised) 1933 Second Impression of Third Edition 1936 Fourth Edition (further revised) 1940 […]

SECTION I THE HISTORY OF THE ROMAN CHURCH CHAPTER VII THE MODERN PHASE IN the opinion of "Catholic Truth," the reform of the Church, which it grossly exaggerates, was due to its own vital powers of recovery, not to the pressure of heretics. As I have repeatedly pointed out, the most irritating feature of Catholic […]

SECTION I THE HISTORY OF THE ROMAN CHURCH CHAPTER VI THE PAPACY IN THE DEPTHS THE Catholic theory is that God, for his inscrutable reasons – this is said in low and reverential tones permitted the Papacy to contract a stain at times from the age in which it lived. The plain historical truth is […]

SECTION I THE HISTORY OF THE ROMAN CHURCH CHAPTER V DOWN THE SLOPE WE have reached the thirteenth century, which Catholic writers seem to propose as a shining model for the twentieth century. What art! What splendid trade unions (or guilds)! What beautiful saints, like Francis and Dominic! What – Mr. Chesterton would say – […]

SECTION I THE HISTORY OF THE ROMAN CHURCH CHAPTER IV THE PAPACY AT ITS HEIGHT IN the preceding three chapters I have described a thousand years of Papal history: a thousand years since, according to the Roman tradition, Peter had brought his special inspiration to Rome and inaugurated a "divinely inspired" series of pontiffs. What […]

SECTION I THE HISTORY OF THE ROMAN CHURCH CHAPTER III THE PAPACY IN THE DARK AGES THE Pope to whom I have referred, Hadrian (or Adrian) I, was one of the most respected and religious prelates in Rome at the time of the horrors I have described, and he succeeded to the Papacy a few […]

SECTION I THE HISTORY OF THE ROMAN CHURCH CHAPTER II EUROPE DECAYS AND THE POPES THRIVE SIMULTANEOUSLY with this forging of credentials and lowering of character in the Roman Church there was a singular transformation of its originally simple offices. The Pagans were accustomed to highly coloured and picturesque ceremonies, and the new Church indulgently […]

SECTION I THE HISTORY OF THE ROMAN CHURCH CHAPTER I THE ORIGIN OF THE PAPACY OF all the fictions which still shelter from the storm of modern criticism under the leaky umbrella of "Catholic Truth," the legend of the divine foundation of the Papacy and the Papal system is quite the boldest and most romantic. […]

THE POPES AND THEIR CHURCH A CANDID ACCOUNT BY JOSEPH McCABE (Author of “Twelve Years in a Monastery,” etc.) PREFACE SECTION I THE HISTORY OF THE ROMAN CHURCH I. THE ORIGIN OF THE PAPACY II. EUROPE DECAYS AND THE POPES THRIVE III. THE PAPACY IN THE DARK AGES IV. THE PAPACY AT ITS HEIGHT V. […]

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