tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732092994259978.post450056334701026112..comments2024-02-26T19:22:15.069-06:00Comments on Lex Christianorum: Capital Punishment and Gratian's DecretumAndrew M. Greenwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17242573723573203387noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732092994259978.post-34852944120558139132012-03-20T10:05:59.797-05:002012-03-20T10:05:59.797-05:00However in 1302, Pope Boniface VIII in dilemnas wi...However in 1302, Pope Boniface VIII in dilemnas with England and France issued Unam Sanctam which put both swords effectively in the Vatican:<br /> " Both, therefore, the spiritual and material swords, are in the power of the Church, the latter indeed to be used for the Church, the former by the Church, the one by the priest, the other by the hand of kings and soldiers, but by the will and sufferance of the priest. It is fitting, moreover, that one sword should be under the other, and the temporal authority subject to the spiritual power."<br /> Innocent IV had already done this in 1253 when he bound secular rulers to burn heretics under pain of excommunication if they did not...hence "Inquisition" at new advent in the Old encyclopedia:<br /> " The aforesaid Bull "Ad exstirpanda" remained thenceforth a fundamental document of the Inquisition, renewed or reinforced by several popes, Alexander IV (1254-61), Clement IV (1265-68), Nicholas IV (1288-02), Boniface VIII (1294-1303), and others. The civil authorities, therefore, were enjoined by the popes, under pain of excommunication to execute the legal sentences that condemned impenitent heretics to the stake..."<br /><br /> I am for the death penalty for criminals. The Church took a wrong turn when it mandated it for heretics even though in context, some heretics in previous centuries were also criminals in terms of lethal rebellion. The Church should have mandated it for those heretics who were simultaneously criminals. Christ spoke highly of Samaritans twice in the gospel and they in effect were heretics...rejecting any scriptures outside the Pentateuch.bill bannonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09737277581167437670noreply@blogger.com