“There is a party there (at Rome) which has deliberately set itself to disturb the ecclesiastical and political peace of Europe with the fanatical conviction that the general misery which results from a catastrophe will augment the consequence of the Church. They reason from the experience of 1848, and they found themselves on the psychological fact that in this world, man, when he is miserable, seeks the support of the Church more eagerly than when he is contented.” – (From the Memoirs of Prince Hohenlohe, Vol. i., p. 358.)
PRINCE HOHENLOHE OF BAVARIA,
Chancellor of the German Empire
From a letter: Aussee, September 8th, 1872. “If the Jesuit Father Schrader in his book, The Pope and Modern Ideas, advanced a whole system of theories dangerous to the State; if the Civiltà Cattolica and the Korrespondenz of Geneva – the first under the eyes of the Pope, and the latter with his expressed approval – both being edited by Jesuits, both proclaim the sovereignty of the Church over the State; when the local Bavarian papers, under the control of the Jesuit Father Weisser, daily preach the destruction of the State, when the Osservatore Romano, conducted by Jesuits, reminds us that no heretic [Protestant] can be Emperor of Germany – these are 'no rash journalistic excesses,' but Acts of such importance that no one can shut his eyes to them.
“From the Catholic standpoint, it may be regrettable that we are not a Catholic country with a Catholic dynasty. But this objective complaint must not be made the spring of political action, and it can still less be tolerated that anyone in Germany makes it the starting-point of an attack on the Empire. This the Jesuits have done since the institution of their Order, and to this they are committed: that is, to the violent extermination of Protestantism.” – (Memoirs, Vol. ii., p. 83.)
“Gentlemen, what astounds me about the whole Jesuitical and anti-Jesuitical movement of our day is that the Jesuits and their friends wonder that the modern State abhors them. And yet the Society has taken upon itself to make war upon the modern State, and its members declare with the utmost openness that their purpose is to maintain the unity of the ecclesiastical doctrine and the ecclesiastical life in rigid connection with the Church as the centre of the system. In this of itself lies no danger, but the interpretation which has been put on this original definition of the founder contains a distinct declaration of war by the Jesuits against the foundations of our life as a State.”
“I am always, therefore, of the opinion that the German people must expel the Jesuits in self-defence, and if you object that I, a Catholic prince, have no right to participate in this, I answer that I am before all things a German Prince, and as such must do my duty.” – (PRINCE HOHENLOHE, Memoirs, Vol. i., pp. 75, 84.)
Extracted from the following work:
The Unveiling
OF THE
APOCALYPSE OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE
CHAPTER X
THE ANGEL OF THE REFORMATION
H. W. Layclerc
NEW (THIRD) EDITION REVISED
LONDON:
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MCMXXXVI
[1936]
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