"When the Pope thinks, it is God who is thinking in him."
—Louis Veuillot
"I should like a new Papal Bull every morning with my Times at breakfast."
—William George Ward
These two quotations seem shocking today, and were, in fact, shocking to many in their own time; they come from two 19th-century journalists Louis Veuillot and William George Ward. Veuillot, Ward, and others were at the vanguard of a theological, cultural and political movement within the Roman Catholic Church named "ultramontanism" — "over-the-mountain-ism."
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