DEMOCRACY AND LIBERTY

BY

WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY

VOLUME II.

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

LONDON, NEW YORK, AND BOMBAY

1896

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Palmerston and Clarendon on the conduct of the priests in 1847

Character of priestly influence in Ireland-Complicity with crime
Perversion of Irish Catholic opinion

Recent legislation favourable to priestly influence.

How it is exercised

Continental Catholicism

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Causes that have favoured the Ultramontane spirit

Disendowment and loss of temporal dignities strengthen sacer-
dotalism

Increased dependence of the priest on the bishop
Growth of Catholic enthusiasm-Pilgrimages, &c. .
Centralisation of Catholicism-Triumph of Ultramontanism
Which has made it more fit to act on democracies
Continued intolerance of the Church.

It constitutes a State within a State-Its claims and powers

Dangers to be feared from it

The general current not in the direction of priestly power

Illustrations from Rome, Brazil, and France.

Conflicts with the lay power produced by the declaration of infalli-

bility

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