Happy Catholic*: Well Said: Napoleon and the Cardinal

Happy Catholic*: Well Said: Napoleon and the Cardinal:

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Here's a final story from H.V. Morton's 1957 book A Traveller in Rome, one so true and also amusing that I just had to share it. M...

the attitude which exasperated Napoleon. He might kidnap and bully a Pope, but he could not browbeat the Church.

'Do you know that I am capable of destroying your Church?' he once shouted at Cardinal Consalvi, the Secretary of State.

'Sire,' replied Consalvi, 'not even we priests have achieved that in eighteen centuries!"...

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