Papacy

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"The true (Roman Catholic) Church can tolerate no strange churches besides herself."  Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. XIV p. 766

"The Roman Catholic Church...must demand the right of freedom for herself alone."  Civilta Cattolica (official Jesuit Newspaper Published at the Vatican), April 1948

"The pope has the right to pronounce sentence of deposition against any sovereign."  Bronson's Review, Vol. 1, p. 48.

"We declare, say, define, and pronounce that every being should be subject to the Roman Pontiff."  Pope Boniface VIII, quoted in the Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. XV, p. 126.

"No Catholic may positively and unconditionally approve of the separation of church and state.,"  Monsignor O'Toole, Catholic University of America. 1939.

"The Pope is the supreme judge, even of civil laws, and is incapable of being under any true obligation to them."  Civilta Cattolica.

"Individual liberty in reality is only a deadly anarchy."  Pope Pius XII, April 6, 1951.

"Protestantism of every form has not, and never can have, any rights where Catholicity is triumphant."  Bronson's Review.

"Heretics may be not only excommunicated, but also justly put to death."  Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. XIV, p. 768.

"Non-Catholic methods of worshiping God must be branded counterfeiters."  Flynn, Loretto, and Simon, Living our Faith ( a widely used high school textbook) p. 247.

"In themselves, all forms of Protestantism are unjustified.  They should not exist."  America (R.C. journal), January 4, 1941.

"We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty."  Pope Leo XIII, Encyclical letter, June 20, 1894.

"The Pope is not only the representative of Jesus Christ, but he is Jesus Christ Himself, hidden under veil of flesh."  The Catholic National, July 1895.

"We define that the Holy Apostolic See (Vatican) and the Roman Pontiff hold the primacy over the whole world."  Council of Trent, quoted in Philippe Labbe and Gabriel Cossart, The Most Holy Councils, Vol. 13, col. 1167.