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(Onepeterfive) “…a replay of the sixteenth century, when the Church was facing the Protestant Revolt.,,, a series of popes who go back and forth, see-saw-like, between orthodoxy and heterodoxy…”
Um, no. Popes of the 16th century stood firm against the horrible calumnies, heresies, and wars against the Roman Church. a united “Christian” Europe divided into “Catholic” and “Protestant” (those faithful to tradition and papacy, and the “emancipated” (excommunicated) who eventually split into hundreds of independent churches).
Trade wars preceded the religious wars. English trading companies vied with the Dutch in an international grab for spices, sugar, gold, and slaves. The price of a bag of pepper was higher than a human life. When commodities reached Europe, their value went up 1000%.
But the economic powerhouse that fueled the Protestant revolution was the Hanseatic League . It controlled the North and Baltic Seas and all inland river ports, a greater portion of Northern European commerce than any man, any company, any nation had ever done before or since. Greedy merchants hated tithing to Rome and envied immense Church real estate. Monopolies on iron, coal, timber, leather, fish, furs (brokered with the Dutch and English) made German states supercilious and strong enough to defy the Holy Roman Emperor and then reject the Roman Catholic Church.
Pope Leo X did not cave to insults and attacks, but in 1520 issued the “Bulla Contra Erra” excommunicating leader Martin Luther: “the wild boar from the forest who seeks to destroy it [the Church] and every wild beast feeds upon it.” The once-united “Christian” Europe then was divided into “Catholic” versus “Protestant” (those faithful to tradition and papacy versus the “emancipated” (excommunicated) — who eventually founded hundreds of independent churches).
Pope Clement VIII, virtual martyr for the Faith, was imprisoned after Rome had been sacked by Protestant mercenaries, whose raping, killing burning, stealing, not been seen since the 5th Century.
Pope Paul III heroically issued an official “Anathema” (ban, curse), automatic excommunication from the Catholic Church on all those who traded or kept slaves. He called “allies of the devil” those with an inhuman, intrinsically evil attitude toward the human race and who for profit deprive people of their liberty and property. [Secular powers, however, censored and made it illegal to publish this anti-slavery edict, or any such papal statements in Europe or in the New World colonies!].
Pope Paul III initiated the “Catholic Counter-Reformation.” He excommunicated the adulterous Henry VIII who had created his own Church of England. He convened the Council of Trent (1645-63), from which came the Tridentine Missal and Mass, the Catholic Catechism and absolute reaffirmation of all the Commandments, Sacraments, holy days, saints, all dogma of the one, holy, apostolic Church.
Pope Saint Pius V formed an alliance of France, Austria, Bavaria, Spain, the Papal and Italian city-states. This “Holy League” saved the West from Islam by victory over the Ottoman navy at the Battle of Lepanto.
The “Baroque,” another outcome of the Tridentine papacy was an architectural and artistic style reflecting its passionate idealism and powerful militant spirit. For the next two centuries, Baroque art was commissioned by popes, cardinals, and royalty to affirm and proclaim the splendor, grandeur, and authority of God on earth.
So there weren’t a bunch of Pope Francis’s then, just like we have right now? 🙂
No, popes like Leo X, Clement VII, Paul III (Council of Trent, 1545…) and Pope Saint Pius V (Lepanto, 1571), etc. were superhero Catholic warriors! But we can perhaps take heart in the fact that the Papal imbroglio of right now is not exactly new. Take for example Medieval times when there was a virtual bubble bath of Bergoglios:
Under Pope Gregory VII, important laws were passed to reform clerical abuse and simony (the buying or selling of Church offices). In particular, Gregory opposed such overreach by Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV, Holy Roman who as “King of Italy” was appointing subcontracted bishops. The latter even hired a mob to attack and kidnap the pope while he was celebrating Christmas Mass. On January 24, 1076, Henry assembled German and Italian ranking Churchmen who abandoned all commitments to Pope Gregory VII and demanded his abdication. Gregory first excommunicated the Archbishop of Ravenna who was wingman for Henry IV; then he excommunicated the Emperor himself:
“…on behalf of God Almighty, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I deny to King Henry, who with unheard-of pride has risen up against the Church, government of the whole kingdom of the Germans and of Italy; I absolve all Christians from the bond of any oath that they have made or shall make to him; and I forbid anyone to serve him as king… Disdaining advice which I sent him for his salvation, and by …separating himself from [the Church], I bind him with excommunication.”
A year later, on January 28th, Henry crossed the Alps and met Pope Gregory at a castle south of Milan. “Barefoot and clad only in wretched garments, beseeching [the pope] with tears to grant him absolution and forgiveness. This he continued to do for three days, until all were moved to compassion at his plight and interceded for him… and [the pope] removed the excommunication from him and received him again into the bosom of the holy mother Church.”
But Henry IV had to be re-excommunicated, as he prodded paid bishops to declare Gregory’s election invalid anyway. They elected their friend, the excommunicated Archbishop of Ravenna, Antipope Clement III. Gregory of course had to re-excommunicate Henry IV, which led to civil war, the Pope’s withdrawal to the Castle of Salerno, and his death a year later. His last words were: “I have loved righteousness and hated iniquity, therefore I die in exile.” Pope Gregory’s tomb lies near the tomb of the apostle Matthew, both canonized saints enshrined in the Duomo of Salerno.
The usurpation conflict continued. Antipope Clement’s militia forced Gregory’s successor, Victor III, out of Rome, only eight days after his coronation in St. Peter’s. Next in line, Urban II, spent most of his pontificate in exile in France, before actualizing Pope Gregory VII’s aspiration to start the Crusades, the moral obligation of the West to participate in military recovery of Jerusalem and other holy cities.
When Antipope Clement III finally died, his followers elected Theodoric. However, the usurper was soon seized and condemned by the successor of Pope Urban II (Paschal II) to imprisonment and circumstantial death at a monastery on the outskirts of… Salerno.