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Papal supremacy is the doctrine of the Catholic Church that the Pope, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ, the visible source and foundation of the unity both of the bishops and of the whole company of the faithful, and as pastor of the entire Catholic Church, has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered: [1] that, in ...
The 1570 bull Quo primum of Pope Pius V in a Roman Missal. Below the name of the Pope Pius Episcopus (Pius Bishop) appears his title Servus servorum Dei. Not all papal documents begin in this way, but bulls do. "Servant of the servants of God" (Latin: servus servorum Dei) [1] is one of the titles of the Pope and is used at the beginning of ...
Quoted below are the three paragraphs (of sixteen total) which discuss Islam in Pope Benedict's lecture: I was reminded of all this recently, when I read the edition by Professor Theodore Khoury (Münster) of part of the dialogue carried on – perhaps in 1391 in the winter barracks near Ankara – by the erudite Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaeologus and an educated Persian on the subject of ...
While most of the principles of the Dictatus Papae detail the powers of the papacy and infallibility of the Roman church, principle 9 dictates that "All princes shall kiss the feet of the Pope alone," and principle 10 states that "His [the pope's] name alone shall be spoken in the churches."
Pope Francis has formally approved allowing priests to bless same-sex couples, with a new document released Monday explaining a radical change in Vatican policy by insisting that people seeking ...
Francis has decried the imbalance that can occur "when we speak more about law than about grace, more about the Church than about Christ, more about the Pope than about God's word." [ 73 ] [ 74 ] Francis' efforts toward a "healthy decentralisation" of the Church have polarized opinion within the Roman Curia and in the church in general.
“Francis’ goal here is to get the Church out of the corner it painted itself into regarding same-sex couples in 2021, when it said God ‘does not and cannot bless sin.’” The Pope permits ...
Eutyches, the Pope says, believes Christ not to have been of our nature, but rather to have been the Word made flesh, i.e. to have taken a body that was created directly for the purpose, not a body truly derived from that of his Mother; in this Eutyches errs, for the Holy Ghost made the Virgin fertile, and from her body a real body was derived.