The Pope is the head of the
Catholic Church. His headquarters are in Rome,
or more precisely in the
Vatican, which is inside Rome. Some Popes past and present follow:-
Pope Joan Pope Leo IV 847 -
855 Pope Benedict
III 855 - 858 Pope Urban II - 1088 – 1099 AD Pope Adrian IV
1154 - 1159 AD Pope Innocent IV
1243 - 1254
Pope Celestine V [ 1215 - 1296 ]
Pope Boniface VIII 1294 - ? Pope Pius V
1566 - 1572 AD Pope Leo XIII
-
1878 - 1903 AD Pius
X 1903 - 1914 AD Pope Pius XI 1914 -
1922 AD Pope Pius XI
1922 - 1939 AD Pope Pius XII - 1939 - 1958 AD
Pope John XXIII
1958 - 1963 AD Pope Paul VI
1963 - 1978 AD
Pope John Paul II
1978 - 2005 AD The pope began with a strong rebuke of "stifling of all freedom
through police control and the psychological conditioning resulting
from the unilateral use of the media." He explained "totalitarianism
destroys fundamental human freedoms and tramples upon human rights.
Manipulating public opinion with the incessant pounding of its
propaganda, it makes it easy to yield to the attraction of violence and
weapons and in the end it overturns our human sense of responsibility."
He continued "It is in fact characteristic of all totalitarian
regimes to create an enormous propaganda machine in order to justify
their own crimes...War gives rise to a propaganda which leaves no
room for different interpretations, critical analysis of the causes of
conflict, and the attribution of real responsibility." See informed criticism from
Maurice Pinay. Pope John Paul I
2005 - 2005 AD - he lasted just 33 days Pope Benedict XVI
2005 - 2013 AD The controversial [ sic ] comment originally appeared in the 7th of the 26 Dialogues Held With A Certain Persian, the Worthy Mouterizes, in Anakara of
Galatia,
written in 1391 as an expression of the views of the
Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaiologos, one of the last
Christian rulers before the
Fall of Constantinople to the Muslim
Ottoman Empire, on such issues as
forced conversion,
holy war, and the relationship between
faith and
reason.
The passage, in the English translation published by the Vatican, was: Show me just what
Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only
evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith
he preached.
Sounds fair to me. Also, to be fair the Islamics
made fuss. They take their religion seriously. We don't. Pope Francis 2013 - present day
Pope Joan 855 - 857
Pope Boniface VIII 1294
- ???? The pope at the time was Celestine V. He was an old man,
had never wanted to be pope, found it all too much, and
decided he would rather be a hermit. He therefore resigned
the papacy – the only man ever to do so until Pope Benedict
XVI did the same in 2013. Dante was not impressed, and in
the Divine
Comedy allocated Celestine to the entrance of Hell for
cowardice in making “the great refusal”. On Christmas Eve
1294 Caetani was elected to replace Celestine, and took the
name Boniface VIII. One of the most pressing problems he inherited was the
belligerence of Edward I of England and Philip
IV of France, and their habit of illegally taxing the
Church in their lands to raise money for armies. Hoping to avert war, and keen to prevent Church assets
from being depleted, Boniface issued the bull Clericis
laicos in 1296, threatening excommunication for anyone
taxing the Church without his permission. In England the bull was largely complied with, but in
France Philip countered by starting a trade war, forbidding
the export of money and valuables from France, and expelling
certain foreign merchants. This surprise move hit Boniface’s
administration hard. At
the same time, in Rome, the Colonna family was manoeuvring
against Boniface, and in May 1297 organised an armed robbery
that made off with a significant amount of papal wealth.
Beleaguered, Boniface climbed down from the demands of Clericis
laicos, and a group of the Colonna fled to Philip's court
in Paris. To patch up the relationship between Rome and France,
Boniface canonised Philip’s grandfather, Louis IX. But
trouble came again when Philip hit a southern French bishop,
Bernard Saisset of Pamiers, with trumped up charges of
treason, heresy, and simony. He was given a summary trial,
and imprisoned. This posed Boniface with a new dilemma. The
Church, not kings, dealt with misbehaving Churchmen (Thomas
Becket had fought the same battle with Henry II in England). Indeed we declare,
say, pronounce, and define that it is altogether
necessary to salvation for every human creature
to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.
Was a
woman and probably fictional. In one version she is alleged to have reigned
between Leo IV and
Benedict III in the 850s.
He helped fight off Arab, Islamic(?) raiders.
Some things don't change.
Pope
Urban II, born Otho de Lagery is best known for initiating the
First Crusade.
Born in England. Rarely went back.
Incited the Invasion of Ireland. Was
he Catholic or Jew?
Rerevisionist wonders - see
Was The Pope A Catholic? The evidence is non-existent, just a
feeling about the nature of the enemy.
Lived in a turbulent period. He had to flee to France but made it back
later. Mongols were making problems for Europe at the time.
He was a Pope who walked away by resigning. He was put in prison for his
pains.
Had a
lively time of it.
In 1570 he published
Regnans in Excelsis, excommunicating
Elizabeth I of England for heresy and persecution of
English Catholics during her reign. He also arranged the formation of
the
Holy League, an alliance of Catholic states to combat the advancement of
the
Ottoman Empire in Eastern Europe. Although outnumbered, the Holy League
famously defeated the Ottomans at the
Battle of Lepanto in 1571. Pius V attributed the victory to the
intercession of the
Blessed Virgin Mary and instituted the feast of
Our Lady of Victory.[6]
Biographers report that as the Battle of Lepanto ended, Pius rose and went
over to a window, where he stood gazing toward the East. Then, turning
around, he exclaimed "The Christian fleet is victorious!" and shed tears of
thanksgiving. Now of course our rulers betray us, welcoming the enemy at the
gates.
A decent man with a brain.
Pope Leo XIII is well known for intellectualism,
the development of social teachings. He brought us his famous papal
encyclical Rerum Novarum, which told us that
Capitalism is bad but
Socialism is worse, making false promises to the honest working man.
A profoundly decent man who followed traditional
teachings. This is why the
Society of Saint Pius X aka
SSPX is named after him.
Pope Pius XII, born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli
was the Pope during the Nazi era
and he has been accused of being indifferent at best to the fate of the Jews who
came unstuck then. But Pius wrote
Mit
Brennender Sorge [ With Burning Care is my
amateur translation ] in 1937, an encyclical which was unusual, if not
unique
because it was published first in German rather than Latin and told us thereby
who it was written for. He wrote about the Nazi's breach of the
Concordat with the German Reich (1933) and in
favour of peace in Germany.
He brought us
Nostra
Aetate
Spoke about the dangers of
Propaganda He told us that
Propaganda Machines Are Weapons Of War. It's
not often noted that that a famous Catholic canonized saint gave speeches
decrying war propaganda, which, as he put it, is "directed especially to the
young."
He delivered the
Regensburg Address
quoting an unfavorable remark about
Islam made at
the end of the 14th century by
Manuel II Palaiologos, the
Byzantine emperor..........
PS One of
Pope Benedict
XVI's entourage was Fr.
Patrick Desbois, a priest subverted by Zionist crazies.
Is the Pope
a
Catholic? Is he in deed, in thought
a Catholic? You might have
thought the answer is obvious. It certainly should be, but people who
understand the issues have their doubts. Maurice
Pinay is
one. He
knows the ground.
Was
probably fictional, a woman who reigned as
pope for a few
years during the
Middle Ages. Her story first appeared in chronicles in the 13th century
and subsequently spread throughout Europe. The story was widely believed for
centuries, but most modern scholars regard it as fictional.
- published on 24 December 2017
On this
day in 1294: the election of Pope Boniface VIII begins a bloody
feud which will upend medieval politics
Benedetto
Caetani was born in 1235 to a powerful Roman family. He went
to Bologna to study law, then began a career in the papal
government. In 1281 he was appointed Cardinal Deacon of St
Nicholas in Carcere Tulliano, and 10 years later Cardinal
Priest of St Martin in Montibus. In this role he travelled
to Paris, where he helped avert a war between France and
England, and assisted in bringing peace to France and
Aragon.
Boniface issued the bull Ausculta fili, requiring Philip to release the bishop. Philip’s administration responded, as usual, by moving heavily onto the attack, circulating doctored and distorted extracts of the bull, then calling the Estates General, at which the misinformed delegates voted to support Philip.
In 1302, keen to reassert the power of the papacy, Boniface issued the bull for which he is best remembered: Unam sanctam. In it, Boniface affirmed the general understanding that the world was split into the spiritual power, which was administered by the pope, and the temporal power, which was exercised by kings. Where he departed from previous popes was in the strength of the language he used to stress that the temporal power must submit to the spiritual power in order to achieve salvation.
In response, Philip again put his propaganda machine into action. Under William of Nogaret, the French court began spreading defamatory rumours about Boniface, questioning the lawfulness of his election as pope, and accusing him of heresy. Having set the hare running, Nogaret then went off to Italy to foment popular unrest against Boniface.
Once south of the Alps, Nogaret heard that Boniface was preparing a new bull against Philip. So, together with an armed band of 1,600 men from the Colonna faction, Nogaret broke into the papal summer residence at Anagni, and kidnapped the pope.
The Colonna argued for Boniface’s death, but Nogaret wanted to put him on trial. Two days later, the people of Anagni rescued the pope, but whatever Nogaret had done to Boniface in the two days had broken him in body and spirit, and Boniface returned to Rome, where he died shortly after, on 11 October 1303.
Not content with their victory, Philip and Nogaret then put the dead Boniface on trial for heresy and sodomy. The experience taught them much about manipulating public attitudes, which they deployed to dramatic effect in their battle with the next pope (albeit nominally an ally of theirs), in which they destroyed one of the papacy’s most iconic orders: the Knights Templar.
In terms of history, the Philip-Boniface affair was critical in the evolution of modern Europe. It was the first time a nation state – in this case France – tried to assert itself as the dominant power in Europe, answerable to no one. In response, Boniface had attempted to reaffirm the traditional primacy of the papacy.
While in many ways neither were immediately successful, the spat was a singular tussle in the story of European power and identity, and one in which the social and spiritual order of Europe began to evolve from its medieval framework.
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Here is the colorful, panoramic story of seven men who ruled
the Church of Rome at seven critical periods in the 600 years
leading into the Reformation. It was an age of grandeur and
corruption, of magnificent architecture and petty human foibles, of
ecclesiastical heresy and moral degradation. Popes led armies, made
love and war, conspired for power, and armed themselves with the
techniques of assassination and seduction while clothed with the
authority of the Church. Against the background of this turbulent
era, E. R. Chamberlin explores the lives, both private and public,
of John XII, the dissolute Roman prince, Benedict IX, who subjected
the Papacy to its greatest indignity; Boniface VIII, who carried the
temporal claims of popes to supreme heights and was destroyed by
them; Urban VI, the wild man from Naples, whose grotesque savageries
widened and maintained the scandalous gap of the Great Schism;
Alexander VI, who brought to the See of Peter the intrigues of the
Borgia; Leo X, civilized, urbane, indifferent to the pleas of the
Augustinian preacher from the North, Martin Luther; and Clement VII,
the unskillful fox, who fell, tricked by the Holy Roman Emperor,
bringing down Rome itself. Profusely illustrated with architectural
photographs and contemporary art from both Catholic and Protestant
sources, The Bad Popes is a vital and important book that vividly
depicts the ecclesiastical corruptions which led to the Reformation.
THE COMMUNIST FRIENDS OF THE NEW WORLD POPE
Primitive communism is much like primitive Christianity but the former has done much evil, accounting for 85 million murders, See The Black Book of Communism on the point.
Is The Pope A Catholic? [ 5 April 2014 ]
This is usually asked as a rhetorical question. Now it is a real one. The issue of bears in the woods seems to be settled. If the Pope decides that Church doctrine can be jettisoned the Faithful might decide to take their loyalty elsewhere. Joe Stalin asked how many divisions the Pope had. We had the last laugh on that. However Antonio Gramsci, the leading intellectual of the communist party in Italy set up the attack on the Church as the main thrust of his offensive on Western Civilization. It is Cultural Marxism; it is winning the battle of ideas. The Church of England has been broken by infiltrators - see e.g. Bishop Is A Heretic Inciting Sodomy. The Long March Through The Institutions is paying off. The Main Stream Media are propaganda machines, just like the Education industry.