POPE PETER --THE GREATEST OF THE GREAT
25/04/07 12:17
There is no pope in the history of orthodox Roman Catholicism who was more thoroughly Orthodox, Roman, or Catholic than the first pope of Christendom, Pope St. Peter I, the greatest of the Great.
What fortifies this truth more than anything else is the very life of Pope Peter the Great himself, a life of unswerving self-sacrifice, a life lived out finally in Rome, and a life laid down to seed the very soil from which Christ’s Church has sprung.
We see how the Roman Catholic Church has thrived and risen or failed and lessened due to the strength or weakness of the hand ruling from the throne of Peter. And the first hand to rule was a strong hand, a steadying hand, a commanding hand, a ruling hand. For it is the battle of Christ against Satan, of good versus evil, of life versus death that goes on from the first pope St. Peter to the last pope at the end of time. And what a battle is this unmistakably, it is the battle for souls, an endless confrontation that manifests itself in the very life of Peter himself.
We can remember how this Pope Peter professed the very greatest belief in Jesus Christ when asked with all the apostles
‘Whom do men say that I am?’
Peter with conviction responded to Our Divine Lord Himself :
"You are the Christ, the Son of the Living Read More...
WHY BONIFACE VIII IS IS TRULY AN ORTHODOX ROMAN CATHOLIC POPE
25/04/07 09:51
Why is Pope Boniface VIII a heroic and saintly orthodox Roman Catholic Pope?
If for no other reason, it is for the document, "Unam Sanctam." He was no false ecumenist. Philip the Fair of France replied to the publication of this by Pope Boniface with the total confiscation of all property belonging to the French bishops who had attended the Council in Rome. He placed under guard the French Cardinal-legate, whom the Pope sent to Philip the Fair with the bull, as soon as he arrived in Paris.
Pope Boniface VIII, was finally convinced that all hope of reconciliation with Philip the Fair was futile and so he wrote the King a sentence of excommunication. Fast upon this brave papal deed came King Philip the Fair holding his own French council in which the most malicious attacks on this holy pope were published.
So clever were the lies and sweeping denunciations and misrepresentations and so threatening the intimidations that the great body of French clergy and laity even joined in with Philip the Fair against Pope Boniface VIII. The rest of the story is the history of the Avignon papacy and the apostasy of Philip the Fair and the French Read More...
GREGORY THE GREAT AND FALSE ECUMENISM
25/04/07 09:31
Pope Gregory the Great did battle against the Patriarch of Constantinople who wanted to establish his domination over Rome and who called himself the "ecumenical bishop" in the sense of being a king or the universal bishop over the whole world.
Gregory vehemently renounced the word "ecumenical" as referring to himself as the "ecumenical bishop of Rome," for the title he chose instead was "servus servorum deorum" (servant of the servants of God); all because the Patriarch "John the Faster" wanted to use "ecumenical" in the sense of "universal" in order to steal the prerogative and influence of the Bishop of Rome, the universal Father of Christendom.
Thereafter, every pope following 'Pope Gregory the Great' used the titles: "Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the universal Church, and King and Magistrate of the Roman Province and (since 1929) Sovereign of the State of the City of the Vatican."
Thus, Gregory the Great ever so adroitly ended all Read More...
CRUSADING POPES: POPE URBAN III AND BENEDICT XVI
25/04/07 09:18
The word 'crusade' itself comes from the Latin word "crux" meaning "cross." The first crusade was launched by Pope Urban II to recover Jerusalem as a Catholic city from the Turks who were followers of Islam at the very end of the eleventh century.
All of the crusaders wore this orthodox Roman Catholic symbol of the sacred cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ on their uniforms in war against the turks. How much the symbol of the cross greatly inspired them because it also emphasized their motto: "Deo Volente" or "God wills it."
Wearing this most sacred symbol of orthodox Roman Catholicism, the crusaders won a stunning victory against Islam, even though the Catholic kings of the day did not cooperate. What a great undertaking for our crusading Pope Benedict XVI to visit Read More...
"THE MURDERED POPE"
25/12/06 08:57
The real enemy of Pope Boniface VIII was the leader of France in the 1300's, King Philip the Fair, who sent his henchman William of Nogaret to exact punishment on this saintly Pope by breaking entrance into his papal quarters in the Vatican, then striking the Pope with a sacrilegious blow on the face.
Shortly thereafter, within a month, this pope died from this fatal blow thus transferring the papacy to Avignon, France for the next seventy years. This was the end of the Middle Ages and the inception of troubles Read More...
THE GREAT CATHOLIC TEACHING OF BONIFACE VIII, "UNAM SANCTUM"
02/11/06 08:45
It was the Pope of the Council of Florence, Eugene IV, who defined in his Bull, "Cantate Domino," on February 4, 1441, the same doctrine which Pope Boniface VIII infallibly taught in his encyclical "UNAM SANCTAM," and which every Pope had taught from the time of the Apostles.
"The most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches," Pope Eugene IV solemnly pronounced Read More...