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Is the De Facto Power Always Legitimate Authority?

24 Saturday Mar 2018

Posted by Matthew Scarince in Christendom

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Authority, Essay, Hans Karl von Zessner-Spitzenberg, History, Legitimacy, Pope Leo XIII, Ralliement, rebellion, The Josias Podcast

To despise legitimate authority, in whomsoever vested, is unlawful, as a rebellion against the divine will, and whoever resists that, rushes willfully to destruction.

-Pope Leo XIII, Immortale Dei

As I was listening to the latest episode of the excellent Josias Podcast, two sentences stood out to me, one referring to revolutions as “intrinsically immoral”, the other stating that “we are obliged to accept the De Facto Power by Catholic Doctrine.” To take the second statement first as it naturally leads to the other, are Catholics always obliged to accept the De Facto Power as legitimate? Is this really the doctrine that was established by Pope Leo XIII?

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