Paul the Pope and Paul the Friar: A Story of an Interdict |
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admitted Agostino Nani Aldobrandino ambassador ambassador at Rome Apostolic authority Baronius Bellarmine Bianchi Giovini bishop Borghese briefs Camillo Borghese Canon Catholic cause censures century Church civil Clement VIII College Conclave Conclavist convent Council Council of Trent course danger declared decree defend despotic dispute doctrine Doge duty ecclesiastical election eminence enemy Europe excommunication faith favour Frà Paolo France French friar friends give hand Holy Father hope Interdict Jesuits Joyeuse King laws Leonardo Donato letter liberty mankind matter means ment mind Montalto Nuncio once opinion Papacy Papal party Paul persons Pontiff Pope Pope's position present pretensions priests prisoners protest Protestantism quarrel received reply Republic Republic of Venice result Rome's rulers sacerdotal sador Sala Regia San Marcello Sarpi Senate sent sovereign Spain Spanish spiritual terrible friar tion Venetian ambassador Venetian government Venetian republic Venice Vicenza vote wished word
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Page 381 - V., there was published and posted up in Rome a so-called brief, which was fulminated against us, our senate, and the whole of our state ; and that one was addressed to you, the tenor and contents whereof were similar to those of the other. We therefore find ourselves constrained to preserve in peace and tranquility the state which God has given us to rule ; and, in order to maintain our authority as a prince, who in temporal matters recognizes no superior saving the Divine Majesty, we, by these...
Page 382 - ... honor and their lives, and occasion a most grave and universal scandal throughout the state ; We do not hesitate to consider the said brief not only as unsuitable and unjust, but as null and void and of no worth or value whatever, and being thus invalid, vain, and unlawfully fulminated, de facto nullo juris ordine servato, we have thought fit to use in resisting it the remedies adopted by our ancestors and by other sovereign princes against such pontiffs as, in using the power given them by God...
Page 382 - ... it the remedies adopted by our ancestors and by other sovereign princes against such pontiffs as, in using the power given them by God to the use of edifying, have overstepped their due limits And we pray the Lord God to inspire him [the pope] with a sense of the invalidity and nullity of his brief and of the other acts committed against us, and that He, knowing the justice of our cause, may give us strength to maintain our reverence for the holy apostolic see, whose most devoted servants we...
Page 381 - ... one was addressed to you, the tenor and contents whereof were similar to those of the other. We therefore find ourselves constrained to preserve in peace and tranquility the state which God has given us to rule; and, in order to maintain our authority as a prince, who in temporal matters recognizes no superior saving the Divine Majesty, we, by these our public letters, do protest before the Lord God and the whole world that we have not failed to use every possible means to make his Holiness understand...
Page 19 - ... this religious system has no inherent or necessary affinity to one form of government more than to another.
Page 350 - ROME'S DAMAGED CONDITION. 351 broken and ruined irreparably. Like an old cannon spiked, and known to be harmless by everybody, it might still be displayed on the insecure battlements of the Papal fortress, in the hope that some might still be ignorant enough to be terrified by the look of it at a distance.
Page 382 - ... our state, inasmuch as it would cause disturbance in the quiet possession which, by divine Grace, under our government our faithful subjects hold of their properties, their honor and their lives, and occasion a most grave and universal scandal throughout the state ; We do not hesitate to consider the said brief not only as unsuitable and unjust, but as null and void and of no worth or value whatever, and being thus invalid, vain, and unlawfully fulminated, de facto nullo juris ordine servato,...
Page 40 - Popes when to insist and when to tem' porise,' he entered on his office under the title of Paul V., with a conscientious resolution which no reasoning could shake, and nothing but compulsion could change, to recognise ' no rule of conduct save ' that deduced from the writings in which Rome had registered ' her own notions of her own rights and claims.
Page 91 - V. was from his earliest years given up to and nourished on those studies which have no other scope than the securing of the spiritual and temporal power of the entire world to the Roman Pontiff, and the aggrandisement of the clerical order by withdrawing it from the power and jurisdiction of secular princes, by raising it above the monarchs of the earth, and by making all secular persons secondary to it in all privileges and advantages."* Though the Papacy, as an instrument of mischief, in its interference...
Page 382 - ... the holy fathers, and the sacred canons, to the prejudice of the secular authority given us by God, and of the liberty of our state, inasmuch as it would cause disturbance in the quiet possessions which, by divine Grace, under our government our faithful subjects hold of their properties, their honor and their lives, and occasion a most grave and universal scandal throughout the state ; We do not hesitate to consider the said brief not only as unsuitable and unjust, but as null and void and of...