"are past. Placed again under the peaceful and paternal sceptre of the Roman pontiff, it would again become what Providence and the course of ages made it - not dwarfed to the condition of a capital of one kingdom, nor divided between two different and sovereign powers in a
— Fr Thomas Crean OP (@crean_fr) June 28, 2022
"dualism contrary to its whole history, but the worthy capital of the Catholic world, great with all the majesty of religion and of the supreme priesthood, a teacher and an example to the nations of morality and of civilisation" (Leo XIII, Dall'alto dell'apostolico seggio, 1890).
— Fr Thomas Crean OP (@crean_fr) June 28, 2022