The Heresy of Popular Sovereignty Drawing on early sources

Drawing on early sources

and eventual canonization of these martyrs in 1862 by Pope Pius IX

Although his teachings did not always receive the recognition they deserved

for the Faith did not adorn the civilization that grew upon the ruins of Rome but animated it

(2) the all-too-certain fact of general apostasy

The Heresy of Popular Sovereignty Drawing on early sourcesFor the first time since its original release in 1892, Charles Maignen's influential work La souverainet du peuple est une hrsie (The Sovereignty of the People Is a Heresy) is now available in English. This powerful theological and political treatise challenges one of modernity's foundational principles the idea that sovereignty resides inherently in the people. Drawing on Catholic doctrine and the teachings of Suarez, Maignen argues that true