Memoirs of Scipio de Ricci: Late Bishop of Pistoia and Prato, Reformer of Catholicism in Tuscany Under the Reign of Leopold, Том 2

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Стр. 152 - Peace between the French Republic and your Holiness has just been signed ; I am happy in having it in my power to contribute to your tranquillity.
Стр. 278 - The false or forced virtues of the monks and nuns are but a tissue of hypocrisy, and a stimulant to the most odious vices. The institutions called Virginales were schools of corruption and licentiousness ; and the soi-disant tribunal of penitence is the constant source of infamous wickedness, by those impudent jugglers, whose authority depends on the blindness of men.
Стр. 279 - The monks, the nuns, their superiors, and even the pope himself, not only tolerated these disorders, but took no measures to arrest the infidelity and impiety of those who were daily adding new victims to their atheism and inordinate voluptuousness.
Стр. 265 - The monks, confessors of the convents, openly taught the Tuscan nuns atheism; encouraged the most disgraceful libertinism; and filled them with impurity, sacrilege, and debauchery of the foulest kinds. Immorality was thus added to profanation; and corruption brought forth impiety. By tolerating these crimes, the pope plainly announced his indulgence of them; and by encouraging the commission of those iniquities, he became an accomplice.
Стр. 151 - ... our faith and word, to approve and ratify them in special form, in order that they may be valid and inviolable in all future time.
Стр. 244 - ... obedience, which would not in any way wrong the depot of faith. " He reflected, that if he yielded on some points of discipline, he did but accommodate himself to circumstances. These had totally changed ; it was necessary that a wise and prudent man should change with them, and that, still desiring to effect good, he should be willing to seek it by other means more adapted at the time to effect his purpose. " He reflected above all, that being reduced to the station of a private man, he ought...
Стр. 153 - Holiness will give me credit for my anxious desire to give you, on every occasion, those proofs of respect and veneration with which I have the honour to be " Your most obedient servant, (Signed) BONAPARTE.
Стр. 222 - It must be admitted that truth is the same in all times and in all places, and that it...
Стр. 222 - Pope has the precedency in honour and jurisdiction over all the Church, and that the Roman Church is the mother and mistress of all the others ; finally, the condemnation of the errors of the incredulous and licentious in matters of religion. in the same manner as they are condemned by the Church, as well as that of the propositions anathematized by the said Bulls, in the same plain and natural sense as has hitherto dictated the anathemas of the Sovereign Pontiffs.
Стр. 115 - This great man continued looking at the image steadfastly, and suddenly was seen to change colour. He also made gestures indicative of trouble and surprise. " He finished by restoring to it all its jewels and ornaments, (to the great detriment of the hospitals and the poor, whom this new miracle again plunged into misery.) and had it replaced upon its accustomed altar, where, for greater awe...

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