The Pope Who Would Be King by David I. Kertzer

Author:David I. Kertzer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2018-04-24T04:00:00+00:00

Yet food was growing short, and the French had cut off the ancient Roman aqueducts, so fresh water had become scarce. Amid the deprivation and fear, many Romans were beginning to question their faith in the church, a faith that had nurtured Rome for so many centuries. “The contest,” observed the American diplomat,

is no longer between one army and another…but it is a struggle that embraces a whole moral world of ideas, hopes and faith, that may have an echo in the most distant generations. The actual object of the intervention is shaking the edifice of the Catholic religion to its very foundations, crushing that faith in thousands of hearts….The consequence, naturally, is that many are now asking themselves whether he who represents a religion of peace has a right to reassert temporal power by force of arms; and…not a few begin to doubt of the truth of the Catholic religion, in consequence of the acts of its head. They cannot conceive how a religion…is now changed into a weapon intended to transform free men into slaves.31

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