Pope Pius II

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    Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
    Man never Is, but always To be blest:
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    It is an error to believe that the Roman Pontiff can and ought to reconcile himself to, and agree with, progress, liberalism, and contemporary civilization.
    —Pope Pius IX (1792–1878)