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THE SHAMEFUL STORY OF SOME HIDDEN PAPI - part

In generale gli storici non sono stati benevoli verso l'Inquisizione. Lea, un Quacchero che occupò molti anni della vita a studiare the Inquisition, speaks of an "endless series of atrocities." Lord Acton, a Catholic, claims that the Inquisition was never short of "killing religious .... The basic principle of the Inquisition was deadly." And, for the popes, "They were killing not only in style but had a legal basis for the assassination of the Christian Church and a condition for the" salvation "."

Even after the Second World War, GG Coulton was able to say that the Inquisition was responsible for "more sophisticated, widespread and continuing legal barbarity that you can remember throughout civilized history." Nothing that the Roman Emperors could have done to Christians essere paragonato per quantità, qualità e durata temporale con la sistematica malvagità dell'Inquisizione.

L'occultista egiziano, Rollo Ahmed, nel suo "The Black Art" (1971) descrive l'Inquisizione come la "più impietosa e feroce istituzione che il mondo abbia mai conosciuto...Le atrocità che l'Inquisizione commise costituiscono la più blasfema ironia nella storia religiosa, disonorando la Chiesa Cattolica con la morte di vittime innocenti che venivano bruciate al fine di eludere la massima "Ecclesia non novit sanguinem" (la Chiesa non sparge sangue).

R.R.Madden fornisce una testimonianza diretta della sua visita ad Avignone nel suo libro "Galileo e l'Inquisizione", con la orribile descrizione delle camere di tortura, di giudizio, delle celle e della struttura generale delle operazioni. La sua opinione sulla possibilità da parte di un accusato di sopportare la procedura inquisitoria è netta ed assolutamente negativa. La sua descrizione del "forno", all'interno del quale venivano incatenati ad appositi anelli i condannati al fine di essere "bruciati vivi", è pianamente drammatica, completa dell'orribile particolare delle camice inzuppate di zolfo che venivano fatte indossare alle vittime affinché bruciassero meglio.

Ai piani superiori (del palazzo dei papi ad Avignone) pontefici come Giovanni XXII (a sinistra), ammassavano una fortuna sfruttando poveri disgraziati, vendendo beni della chiesa, commerciando in indulgenze e dispense papali. Altri papi, come Clemente VI, si stravaccavano nudi, tra lenzuola di lino bordate di ermellino, insieme alle loro molte amanti. Nei piani sottostanti (i fondi) innumerevoli vittime, anch'esse nude, urlavano in agonia mentre venivano torturate e bruciate, qualche volta solo per aver mangiato carne durante la quaresima.

Madden, che era accompagnato nella visita da un amico, un pastore Battista, si sentì chiedere all'uscita:"Bene, Madden, cosa pensi della tua religione, ora?". Madden dice di averci pensato molto prima di rispondere." Sono convinto, Wire, that it must be the true religion, because if he had not in itself a divine principle of life and could never survive the crimes that were committed in his name. "

One Catholic historian said would "rather be an atheist than to believe in the God of the Inquisition." Another pointed out that Jesus himself would suffer and would be executed at the hands of the inquisitors of the popes. He (Jesus) spoke with the heretics (the Samaritan woman) lunch with publicans and prostitutes, attacked ministers of the temple, the scribes and Pharisees, and broke on Saturday catching and eating grain when he was hungry.

does not appear therefore surprising that the "house on the corner" of the pope is still working. Cardinal Ratzinger, or whoever it, call a priest in California, Canada or Australia, ordering him to remove his research on the opinion of the bishops with regard to the celibacy of the clergy or the percentage of believers in favor of contraception. Theologians are expelled and dismissed from their jobs, are suspended priests from their ecclesiastical, only to have manifested their disagreement with regard to lessons learned "not infallible".

absurd massacre of heretics then you must add two other categories of persons, severely persecuted by the Church: the witches and Jews.

In the case of witches do not like debating on charges unlikely, impossible and ridiculous evil responsibilities that were recovered from the defendants, other than to say that Gregory IX gave way to a flood of collective madness that seemed to almost overwhelm the objective reality.

see the operations implemented by the sadistic priest Conrad, one of the leaders informed interrogators of Pope Gregory, beyond all possible imagination.

Hundreds of dead tortured and burned the Church bear witness to the madness. Deaths that sometimes, like the Templars, trained to courage and faith, were nevertheless able to withstand terrible suffering. (One of them said, "recognize with joy that he had killed God, if all this I was spared).

confessions multiplied and became more imaginative and complex (I wanted to see the opposite!). So as to avoid further suffering of the defendants were trying to please the interrogators with increasingly elaborate fantasies (sex with the Devil, the children with him, night flights, evil, the Antichrist is coming, change into wolves, owls, owls, cats, etc. . etc..) And the confessions gave unleashed a new horror Escalations.

The Bull of Innocent VIII (left) of December 1484 "Summis desiderantes affectibus" seems to further stimulate this progression, with making them an integral part of the Christian faith chatter about the shabby old screamed under torture. It reads: Men and women away from the Catholic faith have been abandoned to the devils, nightmares and succubi, and by means of incantations, spells, plots and other bloody sins have slain infants yet in the womb, calves, cattle, have withered crops, made men impotent and women sterile, have meant that husbands could not go with their wives and wives their husbands could not receive. "From 1484 anyone who doubts or denies witchcraft, was bishop or theologian, was to be classified as a heretic and pay the relevant penalty.

Innocent gave the supreme authority over the supervision of this massacre to the Dominicans Kramer and Sprenger (known as the apostles of the Rosary), who wrote collectively, the "Malleus Maleficarum" in 1486. The book, according to some historians, produced more death and misery than any other.

The book is well known, if it were a work that had a deadly impact, the reading of certain parts costiturebbe a source of sarcasm for complicated operations that the Devil was forced to take to achieve its purposes.

This text, basilar per gli investigatori, ebbe il suo seguito in molti altri volumi, scritti da molteplici mitomani imbecilli come Boguet (Discorsi sulla stregoneria), ma in nessun caso i cacciatori di streghe sembrano essersi resi conto che erano loro medesimi a creare le streghe.

Alle presunte, ipotetiche, cerimonie stregonesche la Chiesa oppose sue personali forme di magia, quali acqua santa, candele benedette, campane, medaglie, rosari, reliquie, esorcismi e sacramenti, ma nonostante tutte queste armi "divine", essa sembrava perdere la guerra. Più torturava, bruciava ed uccideva, più c'erano streghe e fattucchiere. In letteratura vengono riportati casi di località nelle quali il numero delle streghe superava del doppio quello delle persone "normali". Interi paesi vennero spopolati, bruciandone gli abitanti.

Naturalmente la stregoneria c'è sempre stata, anche prima del cristianesimo. A volte identificata con le religioni naturali, a volte con pratiche di erboristeria o sciamaniche. Ma il papato ha contribuito con una serie di Bolle e di encicliche che non trovavano alcuna rispondenza nei dieci secoli precedenti e la giustificazione teologica fornita dagli inquisitori era che la "vecchia" razza di streghe (non pericolosa e quasi innocua) si era estinta ed era stata sostituita da una nuova razza più forte e più potente, la lotta alla quale giustificava procedure che, prima di Innocenzo VIII, sarebbero been considered contrary to the very nature of the Faith.

Popes like Alexander VI (left), Leo X, Pope Julius II, Hadrian VI contributed with their juicy contribution by establishing "infallibly" the existence of witches. Again in 1623 Gregory XVI decreed that anyone who made a pact with the devil had to undergo life imprisonment.

Suddenly, in 1657, without warning or explanation, the Roman Inquisition established that processes events until then had not been handled properly. The inquisitors had erred by applying continuously engaging in torture and other irregularities. There was no word of apology o una precisazione sul ruolo papale in questa orrenda buffonata. E non una parola di rimorso sulle migliaia che morirono in questo periodo d'incubo ( tanto per citare qualche cifra limitata alla "stregoneria":1278 vengono impiccati a Londra 267 ebrei accusati di omicidi rituali contro i cattolici;1416, arse 300 donne nel Comasco per ordine dell'Inquisizione; 1485, giustiziate 49 persone a Guadalupe per ordine Inquisizione; 1485, bruciate a Bormio 41 donne per ordine dell'inquisizione; 1505, uccise 14 donne a Cavalese su ordine del vicario del vescovo di Trento; 1507, bruciate 30 persone a Logrono [Spagna] per ordine dell'Inquisizione; 1514, altre 30 donne vengono bruciate a Bormio per ordine dell'Inquisizione; 1518, bruciate 80 donne in Valcamonica order Inquisition, 1562, 300 people burned to Oppenau [Germany], 1562, 63 women burnt to Wiesemberg [Germany] and 54 people Obermachtal [Germany] on the order Inquisition burned 20 Jews in Madrid in 1680 on the orders Inquisition, and are only some episodes of "sporadic").

Before talking about the persecution of the Jews, I would still remember the strange and painful connection between witches' Sabbath (which began on Friday evening) and Saturday jew, or work cleverly link is detected by the inquisitors from the very 'start of their hunt. And this makes us think even more.

I apologize that I'm behind today's apology to the question of church, until you get to witches, heretics and Galileo, which, however, talk to you soon.
For the moment I go back to 1294, when Benedetto Gaetani was crowned Pope Boniface VIII (left).
Iacopone da Todi, the poet who wrote the famous "Stabat Mater", a beautiful hymn church, said that no name was more inappropriate than that: Benedict is not performing at all a "good face" (Bona Facies / Bonifacio).

Very loud and hard, he had, at eighty, the coldest eyes you have ever seen in a man. Cardinal Llanduff said of him: "It 's all language and eyes, the rest of him is completely corrupt. "He refused to personal dislikes interviews and ridiculed unhappy with physical or mental defects. He had sudden attacks of rage on anyone who downloaded close. FMPowicke defined it thus:" He was admired by many, feared by all, loved by no one. "

He was bald, his ears to fan up the fire to face the arrogance of the man who knows he has no equal." The bosom of the Roman pontiff - he said - is the source and the chest of any law. This is the reason why blind obedience to authority is essential to salvation.

In the Jubilee of 1300 say they have caught sitting on the throne of Constantine as he repeated incessantly: "I am the Pope, I am the emperor."
His clothes were the most expensive, adorned with jewels and furs. When he spoke, spitting through the deep interdental space left by two missing teeth in the upper jaw. His predecessor, Celestine V had told him: "You've suggested to the throne like a fox, reigned like a lion and you will die like a dog."

Few popes have managed to enrich his family as Bonifacio. A English diplomat said: "This pope is concerned about only three things: a long life, full of life, a well-enriched family around him." Known as Magnanimus Sinner, "wasted no time in naming three of his nephews cardinals and make them rich with land and property. According to Dante this "beast" changed the tomb of St. Peter in a sewer.

A rake if ever there was one, once held as lovers at the same time, a married woman and daughter of this. One of his jokes seem to have been: "Making sex is like rubbing their hands." Aging gave more space to his second hobby, to make money. The English doctor who saved his life became the "second" most hated man in Rome.

The only concern that troubled him was the thought that everyone thought that he had tricked his predecessor to resign. This is one of the strangest and most curious stories of the history of the Church and began the death of Nicholas IV in 1292. In the conclave held at Perugia after the eleven electors could not agree, divided between the Colonna and Orsini.
Benedetto Gaetani, she stood apart, without participating in the dispute. After two years of procrastination, he declared he had received a letter from a holy hermit, Pietro da Morrone, who lived in a cave in the Abruzzi. He then asked for finally offering the Church a holy Pope, and he proposed to Pope Peter. A group of cardinals went to Abruzzo, led by Pietro Colonna, and among the smells di santità del luogo (doveva essere un bel fetore, quello di uno che non si lavava e non si cambiava mai d'abito), conferì il papato al sant'uomo. Pietro di Morrore accettò prendendo il nome di Celestino V. Non volendo risiedere a Roma che giudicava licenziosissima, stabilì la sua Sede Santa a Napoli.

Gaetani, con la scusa di metterlo più a suo agio, gli costruì all'interno del Castello Nuovo una celletta di legno nella quale, come disse un suo contemporaneo, il papa si nascondeva come "un fagiano nel sottobosco".Non capiva un tubo di politica, non parlava il latino e ,quando doveva spostarsi, o andava a piedi o a dorso di mulo.
I cardinali si resero conto immediately of their error: plus Celestine gave to the poor and had no sensitivity to simony. In a short time would send the church into bankruptcy.
Not knowing what to do they turned to Cardinal Gaetani who provided immediately to make a hole in the wall of the cell of the pope and to insert a sort of megaphone.
Night after night tormented the pope: "Celestino Celestino ...., ..., leave your job .... is too great a burden for you."
After several nights of this kind of subliminal hypnosis into being, according to Celestino, Holy Spirit, the naive Monaco decided to abdicate after only fifteen weeks of the papacy.
("ab hoc tamquam cœlitus ferunt deceptum Cælestinum voice mixes for Cannam to factam eum, ut et defereret pontificatum Bonifacium institueret "from Summa omnium Conciliorum et Pontificum, 1691, Lugduni)
Gaetani Of course, at this point, claimed the papacy ... and got it.

locked Appointed in December 1294, for security and peace of mind, Celestino in Fumone Castle, where the old hermit died a few months later.
Bonifacio Unfortunately for the Colonna family came to know how he deceived Celestino Bonifacio and throughout the term of his papacy, Bonifacio lived in ' nightmare that would be called into question his appointment.

With Colonna cardinals there were also clashes and military, at one point, Bonifacio also managed to exclude them from the College of Cardinals.
Boniface won this battle decided to destroy the last refuge of the column, his mortal enemies, and made to raze the beautiful town of Palestrina and kill all the people who were not able to escape (it comes in the relationships of six thousand dead) . everything was destroyed. The palace of Julius Caesar, the ancient mosaics and precious, the temple of the Virgin Mary in precious marble. Only the church was spared. For this act
monstrous, made in the spring of 1299, Dante buried him in the eighth circle of hell.

About three years later, after the dispute with Philip of France (Nice) already affected by various prohibitions and anathemas (resulting from the Bull "Clericis Laicos", in which he excommunicated any religion that would pay anything to a layman, not even the king or emperor), Boniface decided to issue another bubble, which then many would have preferred he had never written, "Unam Sanctam" which, among other things, stated "There is only one holy, catholic and apostolic church, outside which there is no salvation or remission of sins ... He who denies that the temporal sword is in the power of Peter misinterprets the Lord's words: "Put your sword in its scabbard." Both swords, the spiritual and temporal, are in the custody of the Church.

spiritual is wielded by the Church, the time for the Church. The first at the hands of priests, and the other by the hand of kings and princes according to the will and grace of the priest. A sword is subject to another, the material under the spiritual, as well as temporal authority in general is under the spiritual power ..... The spiritual and earthly power to decide on whether this is good or not. As Jeremiah said: Look, I have put on all nations and kingdoms. "As the last stroke he added:" We declare, proclaim and establish that it is undoubtedly necessary for the salvation of every creature submit to the Roman Pontiff. "

One of the advisers of the king of France said: "The spada del papa è fatta di parole, quella del mio padrone è d'acciaio."

Il re diede incarico a Nogaret di fare tutto il necessario per deporre il papa, cosa che Nogaret fece con abilità ed astuzia. Un anno dopo, riunite le sue forze con quelle di Sciarra Colonna e corrotti alcuni guardiani , conquistava d'un colpo e all'improvviso Anagni, roccaforte del papa, che tutto si aspettava meno questo. Pestato e denudato, mentre ripeteva attendendo la morte da Sciarra "ec le col, ec le cape (ecco il mio collo, ecco la mia testa), fu salvato dall'intervento di Nogaret che aveva incarico di portarlo a Lione.

Dopo alcuni giorni di tormento i cittadini di Anagni si ribellarono, fear of being hit dall'anatema papal can do the end of Palestrina, and drove Sciarra and Nogaret, releasing the pope from his prison. Unfortunately (or fortunately!) The man was completely shocked and spent all his time banging his head against the wall. Reportedly died shortly after (thirty days) barricaded in his room in Laterano and only as a dog (canis ut morieris "was the Celestine Prophecy).
(From the prophecy came the short sentence with which Boniface was defined: intravit Volpes ut, ut regnavit lupus, canis mortuus est ut, ibid.)

Curiosity end of the story of the "Black Beast" by Dante, Pope heretic mundane, murderess, etc, etc. is that when in 1605 his grave was moved (to complete the new St. Peter's Basilica), opening the sarcophagus was broken and his body appeared, after three centuries, completely intact.
Only the lips and nose showed signs of damage.
If he had been killed by Sciarra and Nogaret have even threatened to be made a saint.