I have never understood why Catholics of culture take pains to deny or to explain away the fact that the Roman Church is not only a religion but also a secular system of government, and that the Church as representative of God upon earth may eo ipso claim — and always has claimed — absolute power in all things of this world.


The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts) (1899)

Houston Stewart Chamberlain Quotes

I have never understood why Catholics of culture take pains to deny or to explain away the fact that the Roman Church is not only a religion but also ...

I have never understood why Catholics of culture take pains to deny or to explain away the fact that the Roman Church is not only a religion but also ...

I have never understood why Catholics of culture take pains to deny or to explain away the fact that the Roman Church is not only a religion but also ...

I have never understood why Catholics of culture take pains to deny or to explain away the fact that the Roman Church is not only a religion but also ...