The Present Crisis of the Holy See Tested by Prophecy

by Henry Edward Manning

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Genres: Catholic

118 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1861

About the author

Cardinal Henry Edward Manning, cardinal archbishop of Westminster, was born at Hertfordshire, England in 1808. During his early years he befriended Charles and Christopher Wordsworth and attended Harrow School under Doctor Charles Butler. Originally an Anglican deacon, Henry Manning realized the man-made status of the Anglican Church when the Privy Council denied the objective effect of the sacraments. Just two months after being received into Catholicism, he became a priest in 1851 and quickly rose in influence, instituted as an archbishop in 1865. He was a very strong supporter of papal infallibility and went on to promote a modern Catholic view of social justice. He is the author of many books. Cardinal Manning died in 1892.

Reviews

[April · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very powerful. Written two centuries ago yet could have been written yesterday. Curious what's going on in the Church and the world and why? This little book will make it clear. Ancient prophecy is unfolding before our very eyes. Every Catholic should read this book.

[Aiden Paulson · Rating 5 out of 5]

And thus we come to the third mark, the casting down of "the Prince of Strength;" that is, the Divine authority of the Church, and especially of him in whose person it is embodied, the Vicar of Jesus Christ.

God has invested him with sovereignty, and given to him a home and a patrimony on earth. The world is in arms to depose him, and to leave him no place to lay his head.

Rome and the Roman States are the inheritance of the Incarnation.

The world is resolved to drive the Incarnation off the earth. It will not suffer it to possess so much as to set the sole of its foot upon.

This is the true interpretation of the anticatholic movement of Italy and England: "Tolle hunc de terra."

The dethronement of the Vicar of Christ is the dethronement of the hierarchy of the universal Church, and the public rejection of the Presence and Reign of Jesus.

-Cardinal Manning, The Present Crisis of the Holy See, 1861

[LittleFlowerEnjoyer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Eerily prophetic when read in light of the state of the Church today, especially for a book written over 150 years ago. We have already seen the great apostasy from Christendom and Christ the King in the secular realm. Now we are suffering through the great apostasy within the Church under the auspices of the New Religion of Vatican II.

[Coleman Benson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good. And very prophetic.