I like his holiness very much, particularly since an order, which I understand he has lately given, that no more miracles shall be... performed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scrip...tures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica ...of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is an error to believe that the Roman Pontiff can and ought to reconcile himself to, and agree with, progress, liberalism, and ...contemporary civilization.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The minister's wife looked out of the window at that moment, and seeing a man who was not sure that the Pope was Antichrist, empti...ed over his head a pot full of..., which shows to what lengths ladies are driven by religious zeal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »