Our clerics neither evangelize like the apostles, nor go to war like the secular lords, nor toil like laborers.

Christ during His life upon earth was of all men the poorest, casting from Him all worldly authority. I deduce from these premises – that the Pope should surrender all temporal authority to the civil power and advise his clergy to do the same.

In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bishop has not laid hands upon him according to his traditions, God has […]