Excerpt from The Catholic Priest Others shake their heads with an air Of majesty, as if they would say: how can we get over the Pope - over the hierarchy of the Catholic Church? Like a divine stigma, the world's hatred is impressed on the brow Of the Pope, Of the bishops and priests of the Church. The spirit Of the world - the Spirit of falsehood and Of negation hates the Pope the Vicar of Christ; it hates all our Lord's true miii isters - the Catholic bishops and priests -with demoniacal hatred. Why? Be cause they are the palladium Of truth, and of public and private morality; the root and bond Of charity and of faith. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.