Excerpt from Supplementary Memoirs of English Catholics: Addressed to Charles Butler, Esq., Author of the Historical Memoirs of the English Catholics

Hence the sentence of excommunication was considered as entailing that of deposition, and the former being in the hands of the Pope, he was understood to possess the power of indict ing the latter as a thing of course. Accordingly his indirect temporal power over princes was taught in all the schools throughout their domi nions, on this side of the Alps as well as on the other, without opposition on their part, but it was taught merely as a scholastic opinion, not as tan article offaith. Our Henry VIII. Learnt this doctrine with his other theological lessons from his master, St. Thomas Aquinas, and even the capricious emperor Henry the IV. Sometimes acknowledged it, and claimed the benefit of it from the holy Pope Gregory VII.

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