Chapter 11 THE PAPAL MONARCHY

SECTION ONE.

The Papal Crown-Banner-Cabinet-Court-Decrees-

Jurisprudence-Coinage-Army and Navy-Revenues-Oaths-and

Spies.

Whatever plausibility the creed and ritual of the Catholic church may throw around her religious pretensions, the fact is undeniable that she is a temporal power, claiming to be the only legitimate sovereignty on eart