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The papacy, next to Christianity, is the great fact of today's world. Of both, the past, unhappily, has proven, in a few respects, to be the better spring in individual affairs and has acted the greater public part on the level of the world. To fully trace the rise and development of the stupendous system is to create a history of Western Europe: the decay of empires; the extinction of spiritual systems; the dissolution and renewal of world; the rise of new states; the change of manners, customs, and regulations; the insurance policy of courts; the wars of kings; and the decay and revival of letters, of viewpoint, and of arts. These all connect themselves with the annals of the papacy, to whose expansion they ministered and whose destiny they helped to unfold. On so huge a field of analysis, neither our time nor our boundaries enable us to get into. Allow it suffice that we indicate, generally speaking terms, the key causes that added to the rise of this tremendous ability and the successive periods that marked the span of its portentous development. Table of articles: Book one: Background of the Papacy Chapter I: Source of the Papacy Chapter II: Surge and Improvement of Ecclesiastical Supremacy Chapter III: Surge and Improvement of the Temporal Sovereignty Chapter IV: Surge and Improvement of the Temporal Supremacy Chapter V: Groundwork and Degree of the Supremacy, the Cardinal's Oath Section VI: The Canon Law Chapter VII: How the Cathedral of Rome Neither Has Nor Can Change Her Ideas on the Head of the Supremacy Reserve two: Dogmas of the Papacy Section I: The Popish Theology Section II: Scripture and Custom. Dogmas of the Papacy Section III: Of Reading the Scriptures Section IV: Unity of the Cathedral of Rome Section V: Catholicity of the Cathedral of Rome Section VI: Apostolicity, or Peter's Primacy Section VII: Infallibility
