Jeff Allen
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584 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 7 Aug
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The goods of the religious orders were confiscated.
Their convents, their lands, their very churches were sold.
and they themselves were forced to starve on a miserable pension.
While succession was rigorously prohibited.
All recognition of the spiritual power of bishops was put to an end.
The priesthood was systematically despised and degraded.
The whole ministry of the church was harassed in a hundred vexatious ways.
Taxes of a crushing character were levied on the administration of the sacraments.
On masses and on the slender incomes of the parish clergy.
Matrimony was made secular.
Divorce legalized.
The privileges of the clerical state abrogated.
Worse than all, the lever conscription was rigorously enforced.
Candidates for the priesthood, at the most trying season of their career, were compelled to join the army for a number of years, and exposed to all the snares which the Alta Vendita had astutely prepared to destroy their purity.
and with it, of course, their vocations.
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Make vicious hearts, and you will have no more Catholics unquote.
Besides these measures made and provided by public authority
Every favor of the state
Its power of giving honors, patronage, and place was constantly denied to Catholics.
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