"The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope."

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Wee do freely profess that our Lord the King hath no more power over their Roman Catholics' coonsciences than over ours, and that is none at all ... let people be heretikes, Turks, Jews, or whatsoever, it apperteynes not to the earthly power to punish them in the least measure.

— Thomas Helwys