Quote#God & Faith
I have never understood why Catholics of culture take pains to deny…
Quote byHouston Stewart Chamberlain · 1855–1927
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, 1899).
English (original)
I have never understood why Catholics of culture take pains to deny or to explain away the fact that the Roman Church is not only a religion but also a secular system of government, and that the Church as representative of God upon earth may eo ipso claim — and always has claimed — absolute power in all things of this world.
— Houston Stewart Chamberlain
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