The Papacy Of The Pope

The Pope’s role in the church and the Vatican have not changed in a significant manner other than that his power has declined. The Vatican was built during the 4th century and then rebuilt again during the 16th century. The Vatican is the world’s second largest religious building and is above the tomb of St. Peter. Vatican city is the world’s smallest fully independent state. The name of the government in Vatican city is Holy See. The city itself is responsible for the safety of the Pope since 1506. All supplies go through a screening process and must be imported in. The Pope had absolute executive, judicial and legislative power. There is no way to pinpoint exactly when the Pope's power began to decline, but it was around the time when the

Even before the Middle Ages, there had always been tension between the government in the Holy Roman Empire and the Catholic Church. This tension had built over years and years of each trying to become top dog, and be the one true power within the empire. However, during this time national monarchies began to show up, such as England and France. These monarchies outside the empire, were out of its control began to gain their own power. With their newfound power, came even more conflict with the Church. One of the biggest conflicts was between the pope in the Empire and the King of France. These conflicts eventually led to the period of time known as the Avignon Papacy, which lasted about seventy years. The Avignon Papacy was the time during which the pope was moved from Rome to Avignon, just across the river from France. This marked a huge change within the empire, and had several important impacts. These impacts include a loss in Church prestige, the loss of the Roman identity of the Church, as well as a loss of faith in the Church by the people within the empire.

The Great Papal Schism is also known as the Western Schism that lasted from 1378 – 1417, during which the papacy (the position itself) was in great divide between three popes in the Roman Catholic Church. This political upheaval within the Roman Catholic Church caused distrust of the western civilization towards the church. It began after the Avignon Papacy or the more commonly referred to, “Babylonian captivity of the papacy” which was when the papal court was moved to France and French cardinals who later became popes from 1309-1378 resided in Avignon, France (a total of seven French popes by the papal names Clement V all the way to Gregory XI, who moved the court back to Rome) while being heavily influenced by the French kings; this also resulted to the decline of the papal power and authority (Miller, Study.com).

The papacy assumed so much power in the 1200 because it had gained loyalty from a great amount of people for practical purposes.With a lot of people showing loyalty and trust towards the Papacy, it was able to expands its power over Europe. Since the papacy was the most influential and advanced government during its time it had “legislative power, law courts, bureaucracy, formal procedures, written records and considerable incomes from fees,

Pope Silverius was a Pope during the Dark Ages in Europe, his date of birth is unknown, and he died in 537 AD after being banished on an island off of the coast. Silverius was the son of Pope Hormisdas, and was born before his father joined the Priesthood. Silverius was the Pope for a little more than a year, and was able to alienate the Empress Theodora, the wife of Justinian a Byzantine Emperor known for his reform of civil law. He was forced out of the papacy by a Byzantinum general because Silverius upsetted Theodora. Then, Silverius was wrongly accused of assisting the Goths attack the Byzantine Empire, and was exiled on the Island of Palmaria. Centuries later, he was appointed as a venerated Saint.

The papacy of Roman Catholic Church reached its zenith in the thirteenth century. But there was a decline of the papacy in the fourteenth century due to disaster like the Black Death, The Great Schism, and many other evolutions in Europe. Many new ideas and advanced technologies were developed after series of changes. These ideas influenced the lives of many normal people in the Medieval Ages.

After John XXIII died, Pope Paul VI took over leading the Council and the Church universal. By selling the Papal tiara, the crown worn by popes, and giving the money to the poor,957 Paul VI confirmed a servant style of leadership in accordance with the ancient papal title, “A servant of the servants of God” used by Pope St. Gregory the Great (590-604). One way he served the people of God was by overseeing the revision of the liturgy. This culminated in 1969 when he approved a new “ordinary” of the Roman Rite Mass.958

In 1968, the Second Vatican Council of the Catholic Church published Nostra Aetate, a church document which they hoped would allow for interreligious dialogues to coincide with the Church’s mission of proclamation. This document connects the Church with the other major world religions by saying that the Church “rejects nothing that is true and holy in these religions.” Although the document’s original intent was to restore a positive relationship between the Church and the Jewish people, it presented itself as a way to connect to believers of all faiths—including that of the Eastern religions. However, the Secord Vatican Council did not present the first example on interreligious dialogue between Catholics and those of Eastern religions. Rather, the conversation is rich and constantly evolving due to the dialogues of theologians throughout the Church’s history. This can be seen especially in the early twentieth century, resulting in the writing and publication of Nostra Aetate. One such theologian who innovated interreligious dialogue with the East was Thomas Merton, whose connection to Eastern religious, inspired many to embrace religions outside of their own. Merton’s life includes a history of interreligious dialogues which he participated in throughout his search for religious understanding. Dialogue between Eastern religious, especially Buddhism, and Catholicism was modernized in the twentieth century due to the life and work of Thomas Merton.

In 1965, the Second Vatican Council of the Catholic Church published Nostra Aetate, a church document which they hoped would allow for interreligious dialogues to coincide with the Church’s mission of proclamation. This document connects the Church with the other major world religions by saying that the Church “rejects nothing that is true and holy in these religions.” Although the document’s original intent was to restore a positive relationship between the Church and the Jewish people, it presented itself as a way to connect to believers of all faiths—including that of the eastern religions. However, the Secord Vatican Council did not present the first example on interreligious dialogue between Catholics and those of eastern religions. Rather, the conversation is rich and constantly evolving due to the dialogues of theologians throughout the Church’s history. This conversation can be seen especially in the early twentieth century, resulting in the writing and publication of Nostra Aetate. One such theologian who innovated interreligious dialogue with the East was Thomas Merton, whose connection to eastern religions inspired many to embrace religions outside of their own. Merton’s life includes a history of interreligious dialogues which he participated in throughout his search for religious understanding. Dialogue between eastern and western religious, especially Buddhism and Catholicism, was modernized in the twentieth century due to the life and work of Thomas Merton.

The Pope, leader of the Catholic Church, is adored by most of the world. In September of 2015, Pope Francis came to Philadelphia for the World Meeting of Families, and I got to see him.

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The Ecclesiastica was dedicated to Boniface himself, and is considered to be one of the most significant hierocratic treatises of the fourteenth-century. Drawing upon Aristotelian and Augustinian ideas, as well as upon scripture and canon law, Giles reiterated the universal nature of the papacy, utilising the famous two swords metaphor, by proclaiming that “the ecclesiastical power has both swords: the spiritual to use and the material to command”. He explains that the two swords “are provided for the two parts which are in man: that is, for soul and body”. According to Giles, “the body is under the soul, is perfected through the soul, and is appointed to serve the soul”, then the spiritual sword is superior to the temporal, and thus is

Yes, to an extent, I do believe that the Vatican could have done more especially in terms of “Pope Pius XII’s” direct involvement . From reading the scholarly work by Conway (1989) and Zuccotti (2005), it is seen that there has been a lot of criticism as to the Pope’s effort to save Jewish people who were being murdered by the “Nazi’s” prior to and during the holocaust . By looking at Zuccotti’s work, it can be understood that whilst the Church and the Vatican’s members did provide shelter to the Jews that were being attacked, it is seen that there was no instruction from the Pope himself at that time to help the Jews and thus these members were in essence behaving in a way that they believed would be approved by the Pope, as part of the

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