...Thomas Hobbes, spokesman for the "English Enlightenment," wrote in Leviathan: "The papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof." In the nineteenth century Antonio Rosmini, founder of the religious society, the Institute of Charity,...

...since the age of Constantine the Great! 'The Papacy,' in Thomas Hobbes" famous sentence, 'is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.' The statement, of course, is extreme and needs to be qualified, though many have noted not only the...

...That is a modern version of Thomas Hobbes's seventeenth-century charge that the papacy was "no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof for so did the papacy start up on a sudden out of the ruins of that heathen power."37 Another familiar...

...have their blood on my sword to fulfill my destiny! CHAPTER 50 Two IF BY SEA The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. —Thomas Hobbes Leviathan The catacombs beneath Notre Dame Cathedral Kasimir struggled mightily against...

...original of this great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive that the Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. For so did the Papacy start up on a sudden out of the ruins of that heathen power.'1 But though Hobbes...

...in one city").''" Not really, since it was the papacy that lived on, in Hobbes's words, as "no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof."60 The church found a special convenience in the doctrine of "two swords" (Luke 22:38), which...

...been called the Supreme Pontiff. There is some truth in Thomas Hobbes's jibe, "The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof."12 The archbishops of the four areas of the eastern Mediterranean have never accepted the...

...sovereigns. By the doctrine of purgatory and of indulgences, the clergy is enriched. The papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. The Roman ecclesiastics take from young men the use of reason, by traditions and abused Scripture,...

...; and Pius IX., the handsome staircase leading to the court of Bramante. ' What is the papacy, but the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire sitting crowned upon the grave thereof? '—HoUies. The length of the Vatican palace is 1,151 English feet ; its breadth, 767. It has eight...