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Tuesday 9 February 2016

POPE BONIFACE THE EIGHTH, AND A NUMBER OF FURTHER POPES OF ILL REPUTE



                                             FROM FACEBOOK (OCCUPY THE VATICAN)




                                                                           

                                         Not completely unlike the popes of more recent times




                                            POPE BONIFACE THE EIGHTH (Wiki)




                                                                   


                                                         


                                                  BRITANNICA



                                                       



                                                 ONE_EVIL.ORG

                                                 DID POPE BONIFACE DIE OF A SUBDURAL?



                                                            His spiritual descendant----
                                                                     


God's Rottweiler Josef Ratzinger









The last three mentions of Boniface (in a simile concerning the panderers, by the Simonist Pope Nicholas III, and by fraudulent counselor Guido da Montefeltro) in the Inferno all point to his questionable practice of selling indulgences or absolution. Hmmm, selling the Word? Simony? This one was slightly more predictable in that Pope Nicholas III actually tells us that he’s waiting for Boniface to replace him in his fiery hole:
I stood as does the friar who confesses
the foul assassin who, fixed fast, head down,
calls back the friar, and so delays his death;
and he cried out: "Are you already standing,
already standing there, o Boniface?
The book has lied to me by several years.
Are you so quickly sated with the riches
for which you did not fear to take by guile
the Lovely Lady, then to violate her?"
And I became like those who stand as if
they have been mocked, who cannot understand
what has been said to them and can’t respond. (Inf. XIX, 49-60)
Because he couldn’t put his nemesis in Hell just yet, Dante has reserved a spot for him


                       POPE INNOCENT THE EIGHTH

                      POPE ALEXANDER THE SIXTH

                      POPE JULIUS THE SECOND

                      POPE BENEDICT THE NINTH

                      POPE SIXTUS THE FOURTH

                      POPE SERGIUS THE THIRD

                      POPE JOHN THE TWELFTH

                      LEO THE TENTH

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