Pius VI, besides facing dissatisfaction with this…

1778 CE

Pius VI, besides facing dissatisfaction with this temporizing policy, meets with practical protests tending to the limitation of papal authority.

Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, writing under the pseudonym of "Febronius", the chief German literary exponent of Gallican ideas of national Catholic Churches, is himself induced (not without scandal) publicly to retract his positions; but they are adopted in Austria nevertheless.

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