“I like him now. That is why I regret that he should devote himself to such a questionable enterprise.”
“What enterprise?”
“His Church.”
With a forced calmness she replied, “This is the only time I ever heard the first religion of Christendom called a ‘questionable enterprise.’”
“Leo X. spoke of it as a ‘profitable fable.’ Perhaps that was better.”
“Did Leo X. say that of the Catholic Church?”
“Yes.”
“I don’t believe it.”
“Because you have too high an opinion of Leo?”
44“No; but he was a Pope of Rome, and I simply cannot believe it.”