Emphasis Preaching Journal

Barbara Tuchman, in her brilliant and best-selling history, The March of Folly, describes the apostasy and moral depravity of many of the Renaissance popes. She says the last word on the subject may belong to a reformer of that time, a General of the Augustinian order, who said in a sermon that Rome under Pope Alexander VI knows, "No law, no divinity; gold; force, and Venus rule."