Author: win r

"The climax of effrontery was capped in 1534, when another letter was received from the Mediatrix", which sounds more like the report of a lobby-agent to a brother-politician. It was written in excellent Latin, and was found in the Cathedral of Messina, together with the image to which alludes. Its contents run as follows: "Mary [...]

"The civilized world may yet expect the apparition of the materialized Virgin Mary within the walls of the Vatican. The so-often repeated "miracle" of the Immaculate Visitor in the mediaeval ages has recently been enacted at Lourdes, and why not once more, as a coup de grâce to all heretics, schismatics, and infidels? The miraculous [...]

"His Holiness the Pope, after exhausting, in a metaphor of self-laudation, every point of assimilation between the great biblical prophets and himself, has finally and truly compared himself with the Patriarch Jacob "wrestling against God." He now crowns the edifice of Catholic piety by openly sympathizing with the Turks! The vicegerent of God inaugurates his [...]

"It would profit little were we to dwell much upon subjects which have been disposed of in such a masterly way by an anonymous author, whose work electrified England and Germany last year; while as regards the particular topic under notice, we cannot do better than recommend the scholarly writings of Dr. Inman. Albeit one-sided, [...]