Blasphemy from the Papacy

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"Hence the Pope is crowned with a triple crown, as king of heaven and of earth and of the lower regions; [Infernorum; the fiery place]." Lucius Ferraris, Prompta Bibliotheca, "Papa" (the Pope), art. 22, 1772-1777 ed., vol. 6 p. 29

"For thou art the shepherd, thou art the physician, thou art the director, thou art the husbandman; finally, thou art another God on Earth." Christopher Marcellus, Oration in the fifth Lateran Council, session IV. 1512 in J.D. Mansi (ed.), Sacrorum Conciliorum, Vol. 32, Col. 761.

"The priests are the parents of God." St. Bernard (fifth century archbishop.).

"O wonderful dignity of the priests! In their hands as in the womb of the Blessed Virgin, the Son of God becomes incarnate!". Augustine.

"The Pope himself is the key bearer and the doorkeeper, therefore no one can appeal from the pope to God." Augustine Triumphus, Summa de Potestate.

"All the names which in the Scriptures are applied to Christ, by virtue of which it is established that He is over the church, all the same names are applied to the Pope." Robert Bellarmine, On the Authority of the Councils.

"Ques. How prove you that the Church hath power to command feasts and holy days? 
"Ans. By the very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday, which Protestants allow of [by observing], and therefore they fondly contradict themselves, by keeping Sunday strictly, and breaking most other feasts commanded by the same church." Priest Henry Tuberville, Abridgment of Christian Doctrine, p. 58. 

"After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth. It devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it, and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns. I considered the horns...and, behold, there came up among them another little horn...And, behold, in the horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things...I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them...And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws, and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time." Daniel 7:7-8, 21,25. 

John Wycliffe 1328-1415

Speaking of the Pope and his collectors of monies: "They draw out of our land poor men's livelihood, and many thousand marks by the year, of the king's money, for sacraments and spiritual things that is cursed heresy of simony, and maketh all Christendom assert and maintain his heresy. And certes though our realm had a huge hill of gold, and never other man took thereof but only this proud, worldly priest's collector, by process of time this hill must be spended; for he taketh ever money out of our land, and sendeth naught again, but God's curse for his simony." Johyn Lewis, History of the Life and Sufferings of J. Wiclif, page 37.

Regarding the Schism of the Popes: "Wycliffe called upon the people to consider whether these two priests were not speaking the truth in condemning each other as the antichrist. "The fiend,' said he, 'no longer reigns in one but in two priests, that men may the more easily, in Christ's name, overcome them both". R. Vaughan, Life and Opinions of John De Wycliffe, Vol. 2. p. 6.