Pope Pius IX: Political Reformer ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Pope Pius IX: Political Reformer ~ The Imaginative Conservative

“The most deadly foes of the Catholic religion have always waged a fierce war, but without success, against this Chair; they are by no means ignorant of the fact that religion itself can never totter and fall while this Chair remains intact, the Chair which rests on the rock which the proud gates of hell cannot overthrow.” —Pope Pius IX. It was the amnesty that took the world by storm. Placarded on the walls of Rome, on the hot summer evening of…

St. Graglia The Pope often represented also a political actor in Italian history, but certainly none as Pope Pius IX, in the century Giovanni Maria Battista Mastai-Ferretti, was at the center of extraordinary changes in the history of the country.