The phrase “Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely” is very well known. What I learned recently however is that Lord Acton used this phrase in reference to Pope Pius IX in 1870. The Pope had just lost rule over the Papal States in Garibaldi’s effort to unify the people of the Italian pen…
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