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...The Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope (1537) (Latin, Tractatus de Potestate et Primatu Papae), The Tractate for short, is the seventh Lutheran credal document of the Book of Concord. Philip Melanchthon, its author, completed it on February 17, 1537 during th...

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...mpted to turn these visions into reality. Kings and emperors attempted it. Popes and gurus attempted it. Karl Marx, Hitler, Stalin, Mao attempted it ....

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...The Pope receives a vision that includes the names of four men: a U.S. Senator, a covert military intelligence agent, a priest from a small parish, and the head of the Italian mafia. These men form an alliance to eliminate the dr...

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...Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope kne...

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... 3 J.Cross/Artemis CHAPTER 1 THE VATICAN Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel next to his private ... ...e candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before it; his white cassock cascade... ... of gray clouds, and rays of sun spotlighted the hills of Rome. Alfredo, the Pope’s personal secretary, knocked once and then entered the Pope’s pr... ...trine again.” Ignoring Alfredo’s concerned warning, “Sit down, Alfredo,” the Pope said, removing his glasses and motioning him toward a chair next ... ...motioning him toward a chair next to his desk, “I want to talk to you.” The Pope’s usually robust and eager mood, to which Alfredo had become accu... ... he asked with genuine concern, as he sat down. “We are fine, Alfredo.” The Pope paused and looked out the window, which was 5 J.Cross/Artemis ... ...as always used instead of I when referring to the Papacy. After serving three Popes, the use of the word I threw Alfredo momentarily, but then he qu... ...tarily, but then he quickly reminded himself that this was the first American Pope in history, and more importantly the first one of Jewish decent, ... ...the First, to do it. But Alfredo was puzzled. During the last eight years the Pope had never broken with any Vatican tradition. Why today? “Is it...

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...f the Waldenses and the Protestants, it was cherished as the ground of belief, that the Pope and the papal empire was the beast: and now it is begin... ...el history of the little book of the church under its threefold oppression of paganism, popery, and infidelity. In like manner the seventh trumpet w... ..., for example, could it be said, showing me a picture, This is the image, or figure, of Pope Pius XX. You must first prove, any one would answer, tha... ...u must first prove, any one would answer, that there is to exist in the times to come a pope of that name; and, after this is proved, we shall procee... ...tnesses, there arose in past years a famous controversy concerning this point, “Whether Pope Pius VI. had really gone in person to the court of Vien... ...appened, that this person, whom all saw, and who appeared to all the very person of the pope, was not in reality so? And so, in fact, they concluded.... ... reality so? And so, in fact, they concluded. It appeared to all the very person of the pope: but all were misled; all were deceived; for it was only... ..., clothed with his authority, with his ornaments, and even with his very figure. It was Pope Pius VI. in a certain sense, but in another sense it was... ...Pope Pius VI. in a certain sense, but in another sense it was not. It was virtually the pope, but personally it was not he. These doctors being intr...

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...lready determined as literally true, against Theodorus, bishop of Mopsuesta, by Pope Vigilius, in the Roman council. Any one who reads these words w... ...d in Rome in the time of Vigilius, either while he was antipope or while he was pope. Besides, the question which so much disturbed the peace of the... ...erstanding and application of the prophecies in question to the present church. Pope St. Gregory is a holy father, and he says expressly, that the m...

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...s time for this generation to know that it must chose which side it will fight on. There can be no peace between Christianity and the religion of the pope! Will you stand for the Reformation and for the gospel of Jesus Christ, or will you capitulate into apostasy?...

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...e Order and is considered to be, along with John of the Cross, a founder of the Discalced Carmelites. In 1970 she was named a Doctor of the Church by Pope Paul VI. (Summary from wikipedia.org)...

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...Excerpt: Letter of Martin Luther to Pope Leo X Among those monstrous evils of this age with which I have now for three years been waging war, I am sometimes compelled to look to you and to call you to mind, most blessed father Leo. In truth, since you alone are...

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...r Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther LETTER OF MARTIN LUTHER TO POPE LEO X Among those monstrous evils of this age with which I have now fo... ...rlstadt, and, having taken up a new question concerning the primacy of the Pope, turned his arms unexpectedly against me, and com- pletely overthrew t... ... distinction between them, except that those who are now boastfully called popes, bishops, and lords, it calls ministers, servants, and stewards, who ... ...eep clear of danger among those innumerable commands and pre- cepts of the Pope, of bishops, of monasteries, of churches, of princes, and of magistrat... ...ustification or salvation, but that I may thus comply with the will of the Pope, of the bishop, of such a community or such a magis- trate, or of my n...

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...rs an imprimatur. It is generously augmented with excerpts from the writings of St. Francis de Sales, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Bernard, Pope St. Gregory the Great, St. Philip Neri, Archbishop Francois Fenelon, Father Lorenzo Scupoli, and other spiritual authorities. (Summary by dave7)...

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... encouragement to those affected in the hour of death while the elector ordered others to flee to Jena for refuge. They forget that at one time the pope ordered entire villages of Jews to be wiped out, at another time he ordered an entire city of Albigensians to be wiped out, and that for many centuries the inquisitions tortured, imprisoned or killed anyone who did not s...

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... Publishing House, 1921), pp. 453 529. Preface of Dr. Martin Luther. Since Pope Paul III convoked a Council last year, to assemble at Mantua about Whi... ... mously confessed by our side, and it has been resolved that, in case the Pope with his adherents should ever be so bold as seriously and in good fai... ...little trouble on that account [are disgusted with this negligence of the Pope], since they notice thereby that the Pope would rather see all Christ... ...f convoke a Council, and deliver Thy servants by Thy glorious advent! The Pope and his adherents are done for; they will have none of Thee. Do Thou,... ...article all things depend which we teach and practice in opposition to the Pope, the devil, and the [whole] world. Therefore, we must be sure concerni... ...oncerning this doctrine, and not doubt; for otherwise all is lost, and the Pope and devil and all things gain the victory and suit over us. Article I... ...we had to receive as ar ticles of faith, and to live accordingly; and the Pope con firmed these things, as also the Mass and all other abomina “The... ... of the devil [and errors]? Unless the devil was riding [made insane] the Pope, causing him to praise and establish these practices, whereby the peop... ...and the dead, by which the miserable [sacrilegious and accursed] Judas, or Pope, has sold the merit of Christ, together with the superfluous mer its ...

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...ordinary facility in handling the afflicted consciences of the fallen. The Pope and his bishops, inspired by the desire to lord it over men’s souls, c... ...rk-righteousness is a trouble-maker. Has it never occurred to you that the pope, cardinals, bishops, monks, and that the whole synagogue of Satan are ... ...im be accursed.” In spite of this emphatic denunciation so many accept the pope as the supreme judge of the Scriptures. “The Church,” they say, “chose... ... but witnesses, disciples, and confessors of the Scriptures, whether we be pope, Luther, Augustine, Paul, or an angel from heaven. VERSE 10. For do I... ...arnest that I imposed upon my body more than it could stand. I honored the pope as a matter of conscience. Whatever I did, I did with a single heart t... ...of the blessings of God’s generous gifts. I tell you I stood in awe of the pope’s authority. T o dissent from him I considered a crime worthy of etern... ...rd mum- mery. But God alone is to be feared and honored. I would honor the Pope, I would love his person, if he would leave my conscience alone, and n... ...d leave my conscience alone, and not compel me to sin against God. But the Pope wants to be adored himself, and that cannot be done without offending ... ..., let us choose God. The truth is we are commissioned by God to resist the Pope, for it is written, “We ought to obey God rather than men.” (Acts 5:29...

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... no slandering or false judging or testifying; as, when we now reprove the Pope with his doc- trine, which is publicly set forth in books and proclaim... ...r protection and defense now, is to repel and put down all that the devil, Pope, bishops, tyrants, and heretics can do against our Gospel. Let them al... ... than a straw. If hitherto people could consider it a great thing when the Pope with his letters and bulls dispensed indulgences and con- firmed altar... ...eat multitude of such as hear the Gospel, and, because the nonsense of the Pope has been abolished, and we are freed from his laws and coercion, go on... ...portunity and necessity, bound to no place or appointed time; although the Pope afterwards per- verted it, and again made a Jewish feast of it. Thus, ... ...? An- swer: That is also my scruple, especially from the old way under the Pope, in which a person tortured himself to be so perfectly pure that God c...

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...o the church Were separate those, that with no hairy cowls Are crown’d, both Popes and Cardinals, o’er whom Av’rice dominion absolute maintains.” ... ... monument we stood retir’d, Whereon this scroll I mark’d: “I have in charge Pope Anastasius, whom Photinus drew From the right path.—Ere our descent ... ...into divers waves. Spenser, F.Q. b. iv. c. 1. st. 42. v. 48. Popes and cardinals.] Ariosto, having personified Avarice as a strange a... ... Worse did she in the court of Rome, for there She had slain Popes and Cardinals. v. 91. By necessity.] This sentiment called forth t... ...s for the Ghibellini. v. 132. Her gracious beam.] Beatrice. CANTO XI v. 9. Pope Anastasius.] The commentators are not agreed concerning the identity... ...rbo in Italy (whither he was come about business which he had to do with the Pope) by the hand of Guy de Montfort, the son of Simon de Montfort, Earl... ... Frederick believe that he held a secret and traitorous intercourse with the Pope, who was then at enmity with the Emperor. In consequence of this sup... ...pace was quicker than ours. v. 29. E’en thus the Romans.] In the year 1300, Pope Boniface VIII., to remedy the inconvenience occasioned by the press ... ...quence, as it should seem, of a prophecy, which predicted the death of that Pope at a later period. Boniface died in 1303. v. 58. In guile.] “Thou ...

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...o the church Were separate those, that with no hairy cowls Are crown’d, both Popes and Cardinals, o’er whom Av’rice dominion absolute maintains.” ... ... monument we stood retir’d, Whereon this scroll I mark’d: “I have in charge Pope Anastasius, whom Photinus drew From the right path.—Ere our descent ... ...into divers waves. Spenser, F.Q. b. iv. c. 1. st. 42. v. 48. Popes and cardinals.] Ariosto, having personified Avarice as a strange a... ... Worse did she in the court of Rome, for there She had slain Popes and Cardinals. v. 91. By necessity.] This sentiment called forth t... ...s for the Ghibellini. v. 132. Her gracious beam.] Beatrice. CANTO XI v. 9. Pope Anastasius.] The commentators are not agreed concerning the identity... ...rbo in Italy (whither he was come about business which he had to do with the Pope) by the hand of Guy de Montfort, the son of Simon de Montfort, Earl... ... Frederick believe that he held a secret and traitorous intercourse with the Pope, who was then at enmity with the Emperor. In consequence of this sup... ...pace was quicker than ours. v. 29. E’en thus the Romans.] In the year 1300, Pope Boniface VIII., to remedy the inconvenience occasioned by the press ... ...quence, as it should seem, of a prophecy, which predicted the death of that Pope at a later period. Boniface died in 1303. v. 58. In guile.] “Thou ...

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...mandment demands, whether neck or coat be at stake, whether it be against pope or kings. Where such faith is present there is also strife against th... ... by them. Thus it is very easy to fight against the wrong which is done to popes, kings, princes, bishops and other big wigs. Here each wants to be t... ..., and all manner of sin flour ishes, then no one thinks of fighting, nay, pope, bish ops, priests and clergy, who ought to be generals, cap Martin ... ...ng and labor accord ing to its lust and wantonness, and no more, although pope, Church, bishop, father confessor or any one else whosoever have comma... ...ents and the First T able, and be certain that no man, neither bishop, nor pope, nor angel, may command or determine anything that is contrary to or h... ...ive in Rome or elsewhere, lay waste and debauch the churches, then let the pope feed them, whom they serve. It is not fitting that we support the pope... ... be willing and able to confess it and to bear witness to it? But when the pope, and the bishops, together with princes and kings attack it, all men f... ...nd stands by the truth, though it cost life or cloak, though it be against pope or kings; as we see that the martyrs did. For such a heart is satisfie...

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... she favour’d first the high exploit Of Joshua on the holy land, whereof The Pope recks little now. Thy city, plant Of him, that on his Maker turn’d t... ... laid aside, The decretals, as their stuft margins show, Are the sole study. Pope and Cardinals, Intent on these, ne’er journey but in thought To Naza... ... of Philip III of France, who was sent for, about this time, into Italy by Pope Boniface, with the promise of being made emperor? See G. Villani, 1... ...received a number of fugitives from Ferrara, who were in opposition to the Pope, under a promise of protection, afterwards gave them up, so that the... ...a river of the same name, that falls into the lake of Bolsena, in which the Pope was accustomed to imprison such as had been guilty of an irremissib... ... 56 This priest.] The bishop, who, to show himself a zealous partisan of the Pope, had committed the above mentioned act of treachery. v. 58. We des... ...ls.] The canon law. v. 134. The Vatican.] He alludes either to the death of Pope Boniface VIII. or, as Venturi supposes, to the coming of the Empero... ...and Jarrow, in the bishopric of Durham, and died in 735. Invited to Rome by Pope Sergius I., he preferred passing almost the whole of his life in t... ...ernardone.] A man in an humble station of life at Assisi. v. 86. Innocent.] Pope Innocent III. v. 90. Honorius.] His successor Honorius III who gran...