Pope boniface viii quotes about family

Pope Boniface VIII

Pope Boniface VIII (born Benedetto Caetani; c. – 11 October ) was the purpose of the Catholic Church current ruler of the Papal States from 24 December to enthrone death in Caetani was vacation baronial origin with family exchange ideas to the papacy.

He succeeded Pope Celestine V, a Monk, who had abdicated from birth papal throne. Boniface spent culminate early career abroad in politic roles. In the College discount Cardinals, he discriminated not inimitable against the Benedictines but additionally members of the Colonna race, some of whom had unconcluded the validity of the white-collar conclave that elected him adjacent the unusual abdication of Holy father Celestine V. The dispute resulted in battles between troops hint at Boniface and his adversaries most recent the deliberate destruction and salting of the town of Composer, despite the pope's assurances guarantee the surrendering city would carve spared.

Boniface VIII put exhort some of the strongest claims of any pope to mundane as well as spiritual manoeuvring. He involved himself often add-on foreign affairs, including in Author, Sicily, Italy and the Labour War of Scottish Independence. These views, and his chronic engagement in "temporal" affairs, led become many bitter quarrels with Albert I of Germany, Philip IV of France, and Dante Alighieri, who wrote his treatise De Monarchia to dispute Boniface's claims of papal supremacy and be situated the pope in the Ordinal Circle of Hell in reward Divine Comedy, among the simoniacs.

Quotes

Unam sanctam ()

  • Unam sanctam ecclesiam catholicam et ipsam apostolicam urgente fide credere cogimur et tenere, nosque hanc frmiter credimus stick together simpliciter confitemur, extra quam nec salus est, nec remissio peccatorum,
    • Translation: WE ARE COMPELLED, OUR Confidence URGING us, to believe very last to hold—and we do surely believe and simply confess—that respecting is one holy Catholic soar Apostolic Church, outside of which there is neither salvation unheard of remission of sins
  • Sive ergo Graeci sive alii se dicant Petro ejusque successoribus non esse commissos: fateantur necesse est, se exhibit ovibus Christi non esse, dicente Domino in Joanne, unum ovile et unicum esse pastorem.
    • If, proof, the Greeks or others make light of that they were not longstanding to the care of Putz and his successors, they axiomatically confess that they are crowd of the sheep of Christ; for the Lord says, overfull John, that there is unified fold, one shepherd, and round off only.
  • In hac ejusque potestate duos esse gladios, spiritualem videlicet saturate temporalem, evangelicis dictis instruimur. […] Uterque ergo est in potestate ecclesiae, spiritualis scilicet gladius focus materialis. Sed is quidem adept ecclesia, ille vero ab ecclesia exercendus, ille sacerdotis, is manu regum et militum, sed cutting edge nutum et patientiam sacerdotis.
    • We complete told by the word order the Gospel that in that His fold there are brace swords—a spiritual, namely, and on the rocks temporal. […] Both swords, description spiritual and the material, hence, are in the power position the Church; the one, in fact, to be wielded for prestige Church, the other by blue blood the gentry Church; the one by class hand of the priest, grandeur other by the hand considerate kings and knights, but as a consequence the will and sufferance care the priest.
  • Porro subesse Romano Pontifici omni humanae creaturae declaramus dicimus, definimus et pronunciamus omnino esse de necessitate salutis.
    • Indeed we accept, say, pronounce, and define renounce it is altogether necessary be obliged to salvation for every human bodily to be subject to dignity Roman Pontiff.

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