ABSTRACT
FROM The Temporal Power of the Pope in its Political Aspect, London, 1866. The support of English Protestant opinion for the campaign of the Italian liberals against the Papal States had flourished on traditional notions—some real, some false—about the actual nature of the Pope’s temporal sovereignity. During the 1860’s, after the fall of most of the provinces to the assaults of Garibaldi and Victor Emanuel, the Papacy remained protected in the occupation of Rome itself by French troops. Gladstone and Manning, in a long private correspondence, differed radically over this question, and this caused the first rupture of good relations between the two men. The following sermon of Manning’s develops his defence of the temporal sovereignty of the Papacy, mostly by appeals to the principle of legitimacy.
