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| | Temporal Power of the Supreme Pontiff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | The first is: the Supreme Pontiff has by divine right the fullest possible power over the whole world, both in ecclesiastical and political matters. |
 | | In this vein teach Augustinus Triumphus (in his "Summa Concerning Ecclesiastical Power," question 1, article 1), Alvarus Pelagius (in the first book, "The Lament of the Church," "De Planctu Ecclesiae," chapter 13) and many jurists, like Ostiensis, Panormitanus, and Sylvester, and not a few others. |
 | | Another, I will not call an "opinion," but a "heresy," is found at the other extreme. |
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