History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v2.c29.s2.921

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the *Syllabus* of 1864, which condemned the modern world, and the definition of papal infallibility in 1870, which seemed to place the Pope above the Church, were the logical conclusions of the movement which had begun with the restoration of the Jesuits and the *Concordats* of the early nineteenth century. The Church had become a centralized monarchy, and the Pope was its absolute ruler.