Pope Pius II

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    Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    It is an error to believe that the Roman Pontiff can and ought to reconcile himself to, and agree with, progress, liberalism, and contemporary civilization.
    —Pope Pius IX (1792–1878)