For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. 1 Peter 2:25

Church & State Beliefs of the Papacy




Papal Tiara

At the moment of the coronation, the new pope was crowned with the words

Receive the tiara adorned with three crowns and know that you are Father of princes and kings, Ruler of the world, Vicar of our Saviour Jesus Christ.

Papal tiara (2023, Dec 30). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_tiara






The Syllabus Of Errors

Pope BI. Pius IX - 1864

24. The Church has not the power of using force, nor has she any temporal power, direct or indirect. — Apostolic Letter “Ad Apostolicae,” Aug. 22, 1851.

The Syllabus Of Errors. Papal Encyclicals Online. https://www.papalencyclicals.net/pius09/p9syll.htm






Mirari Vos - On Liberalism and Religious Indifferentism

Pope Gregory XVI - 1832

14. This shameful font of indifferentism gives rise to that absurd and erroneous proposition which claims that liberty of conscience must be maintained for everyone. It spreads ruin in sacred and civil affairs, though some repeat over and over again with the greatest impudence that some advantage accrues to religion from it.... Thence comes transformation of minds, corruption of youths, contempt of sacred things and holy laws — in other words, a pestilence more deadly to the state than any other. Experience shows, even from earliest times, that cities renowned for wealth, dominion, and glory perished as a result of this single evil, namely immoderate freedom of opinion, license of free speech, and desire for novelty.

15. Here We must include that harmful and never sufficiently denounced freedom to publish any writings whatever and disseminate them to the people, which some dare to demand and promote with so great a clamor....The teaching of those who reject the censure of books as too heavy and onerous a burden causes immense harm to the Catholic people and to this See....

20. Nor can We predict happier times for religion and government from the plans of those who desire vehemently to separate the Church from the state, and to break the mutual concord between temporal authority and the priesthood. It is certain that that concord which always was favorable and beneficial for the sacred and the civil order is feared by the shameless lovers of liberty.

Mirari Vos. In Papal Encyclicals Online. https://www.papalencyclicals.net/greg16/g16mirar.htm