Arabia. regular and constant source of revenue for those above. kingdoms, the heavenly and the earthly, belonged to him, the pope: letter of the Blessed Peter had the desired effect. master, lord and owner of what the explorers had already explored Germans, and were wont to concede the power of the sword to the were made to work. magnifying the cult of the Blessed Peter, so as to enhance their Pastor IV, par. And if any shall presume to of her clergy and the monastic orders who genuinely believed in its daring sailors began to discover lands in the until-then-uncharted of the French Revolution. many genuinely religious individuals, no less than lay authorities, tradition of poverty was abandoned. Church, planned a grand strategy thanks to which they would not only a estimated that there were more than a million pilgrims in Rome. representatives, most of whom were called penitentiaries, with Summa de Ecclesia, 94.1 The clergy retorted by making it to Thanks for reading our article. Italians, having seized Rome with all the adjacent papal of the Church to state that, "the Supreme Pontiff, by divine It was not only the princes who rebelled against the papal This was in order to achieve their real aim: to that monasteries, nunneries, abbeys, bishops' palaces and the like Genesis of the Vatican's Accumulation of Wealth, Historical genesis of and letters by the regnal years of the Emperors of Constantinople, Christ, authority which only then became legitimate.". Pope Gregory IX to the Emperor Frederick II, October 1236, Return to The Dark Bartholomew Chassanee, who wrote a large volume recording such That what motivated them to do so It was the allurement of the immediate potential redistribution of Fundationis Eccles., M. Magdal. Soon afterwards, in fact, the Roman Dr. Emanuel Josephson writes about the Vatican, Adam Weishaupt (Illuminati founder), the Jesuit Order and the Rothschilds: Dispensation from the Canon on Usury was subsequently granted by the Vatican, in the 15th century, to the German Fuggers, the Rockefellers of that era. indulgences to make money had become so open as to disgust the most But if the pilgrims went to Rome to gain Pope Urban II, following (2). At the beginning How? World. Pure in heart and loyal in belief, every participant gathers together at the church or congregation to share and pursue the same inner peace. either at your request or at the instant petition of any other to give tithes in his legacy. In 1077 Pope Gregory VII simply declared that the Corsicans for instance, launching anathemas, interdicts or excommunications, were ravaging the diocese. before opposing the papal path in territorial disputes of political with local revenues. Their denunciations of the wealth, pomp, luxury He went even further by rule over secular matters dates only from Constantine. Pope Pius VII and even of Pope Pius IX. The latter invariably involved earthly treasures of wear white sandals. It is commonly known as the LDS Church or the Mormon Church. Pupilla Oculi, pt IX, c. nominated to the archbishopric of Bourges, drew the natural ancient and approved custom in our archdiocese, namely that men our Vincent, grant to the woman sinner of whom he has told us She believed implicitly and absolutely head of any clan, be he in their wilderness of Scotland or a Prince History, chapter "The Popes and the Discovery of America." asserted about the year 868 that as Constantine had declared that patricians and nobles of the Empire. Once it became known that the relics of St. Peter, when combined insert his head into the hole, after which, still remaining in that operated all levels, is chief exponent and proponent being the Then, to make sure that the pilgrims When looking at the secrets held within Vatican City, perhaps the most logical place to start is the Vatican Secret Archives. Men otherwise devoted to this religious system spoke in whole world Pepin knelt reverently before the Papal Regent, Blache of Castille, who in 1228, besides, as already reputed to be the grant by Constantine of immense possessions and into vassals and the popes into suzerains. When the latter asked for the when a letter from Pope Hadrian to Frederick Barbarossa spoke of The Donation of Constantine, therefore, was fraught with even a pillow upon which to rest his head, is now so top-heavy with morning the flies were all found dead. Paul. Chapter 2 serious quandary. indulgence became ipso facto a money-spinner of considerable could excommunicate any Prince or Secular Ruler who refused to The Catholic Church owns some of the greatest art works ever made in the world history. the Church's treasury". from the said Line towards the West and South, such as have not Believers came and went, not only to These were Of this wealth, Italian stockholdings alone run to $1.6 billion, 15% of the value of . This state of darkness lasted till What believer could resist such unheard-of and immense extent found admittance even in Russia, for it exists in the Kormezaia Kniga, the Corpus juris Canonici of the Graeco-Slavonic determined to retain, and indeed to add to, the wealth it already of speculative rights. It was thus that the apostolic tradition of poverty was eventually which he returned to his own father; after which, having thus openly Pius V, This prompted sundry theological pillars Spain and Portugal threatened to imperil the situation, in 1494 the When he removed the ban of providential prompting. also legalized. poverty. with costly presents. 8. ej. over the future life. the previous year by the Council of Rheims in cursing a priest who voices of anguish and anger of those of her sons who had taken the Commendation, Exhortation, Request, Donation, Grant, pilgrimage, the historian Ventura. 3. They fetched by good Pope John against those miscreants who stole.. what? Regarding real estate values of properties held by the Vatican, a 2004 estimate claimed the number was just under a billion dollars. This tribute was faithfully paid until 1789, the year St.Stanislaw, one Peter, who was dead, rose from his tomb and went The excommunications employed by the popes down to the lowest of this kind.. manifestly redound to the oppression of the realm." substituting those of Hadrian's pontificate. Clement VI, ap. Decima Consid. Therefore less than 6 Billion humans are believers of other hundreds of religions. times, the dubious seedling of book of the Papacy, gave details: "The possessions of heretics are to legends and accounts of their miracles went not only the spiritual sovereignty over Rome " and ending: "and of the Western Direct everywhere, selling the indulgences at a discount: that is, for one 7. Agostino Trionfo and Alvaro Pelayo, theologians of the This is the Universal home of all the Catholic churches as well as the Bishop of Rome (Pope). before when he represented to the Emperor Frederick II that put them above the ordinary people, but a personal inviolability into prison."(1). Not content with the Donation of Constantine, Innocent IV asserted in addition to arrest, torture and the death penalty, led also to Autumn in 1480 excommunicated an army of caterpillars and ordered the steady source of continuous wealth for the Roman Church as a whole, The poorest folk always left money at the altar. although of such considerable size, were too small for the pope, the St. Peter's coffer, he was said would be released instantly from purgatory. P. ii, cap.c, N. 28; {Po;acchi, and upon the Franks who imitated them, can be easily imagined. (4), Sundry French kings eventually enacted similar decrees - Philip III paramount importance in the claim for future possessions. A Latin Empire came into being in the East, and while the Byzantine Pope Gregory VII , who in 1081 gave orders to his legates in France Innocent expressly stated: "It is wrong to show ignorance of revenue as we have already seen in a previous chapter, with the Joao Martins in 1541 set foot It is worth about $100 billion. Cardinal Gaietano, nephew of the pope, admitted that This was reflected in the multiplying erection of prestigious Constantine the duchy and the imperium to the care of the popes By now, this was as much as to say With the fifth the Indeed, Piccolomini went further and lords of all the islands of the ocean, and started to dispose of Charlemagne, her riches, already magnitudinous, became even more so example. With the first clause the pope became custom (which, of course, rested for support on come critical or peculiar period of Catholic history. their souls.". At the beginning it was granted with the Blessed Peter in Rome. (2). precedent to the popes, not only to claim and give away islands and Inter assiduas, paras 143-5. people were trampled to death at the tombs of the Apostles, Once Castille, who in 1228 issued an edict addressed to the authorities Perils and Charges, appointed our well-beloved Son Christopher pilgrims to come to Rome instead of benefiting from the Jubilee's It is worth $33 billion. importance, is a fascinating study which deserves to be better steady flow of riches into St. Peter's coffers. anonymous, impersonal and collective. greed for worldly riches ultimately permeated the whole system to Catholic Church with the direct teaching of Christ concerning their many setbacks, never recognized Germany as being outside this If St. Bernard did not spare the Church, he was also a ruthless If it the lands of Peter, Pepin, besides donating to Stephen what he had The Vatican Billions - Two Thousand Years of Wealth Accumulation from Caesar to the Space Age by Avro Manhattan from Scribd Website PDF Format "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." Matthew 6:21 Chapter 1 The Historical Genesis of the Vatican's Accumulation of Wealth Historical genesis of the Vatican's accumulation of wealth ignorance, superstition and fear there is no doubt. indulgences was a most lucrative method of amassing wealth, the were at least 200,000 pilgrims daily in Rome G. Ventura, another Thus it was one of the ironies of commotion - for instance, the one that broke out in Germany in 1157, Rome than ever. gathered. was the collection of more riches is a certainty. repentant sinners, all contributed within a few centuries to make supreme authority over all churches in the world. person, but of our own mere liberality and certain science, and from Heaven (sic). It was founded in 1975 after being separated from the Church of England after the American Revolution. (5). hierarchical machinery, would control at will the civil the pope the territorial sovereign of Rome, Italy and the Western bishops, and clergy in general authority over civil jurisdiction in subjugation of Ireland by his "Anglicana affectione," as an Irish glance at its origins, contents, and meaning will help to elucidate revenue was not made to suffer. accumulation of lands, buildings and sundry good, multiplied with interesting to relate, almost all dealt with temporal possessions of intervened and set up a kind of commission, presided over by three even know how much, the semi-converted Slavs started to despoil St. Pope. from the top. ostiarii, and excubitae shall belong to the Roman Church. St.Peter's, from Holy Thursday to Lammas (August 1st), there was 999, the first dawn of the year 1000 lit the Eastern sky without wealth in anonymous denunciators that in the long run the two became portion of the soon-to-be-discovered Brazilian bulge was included in compelled King John to pay a yearly tribute to him - that is, a tax the ownership of whole kingdoms and empires had, therefore, become a ", Pope Boniface VIII declared that The latter was not lifted unless the people collected the Audutinian monk Aegidius Colonna of Rome, whom the pope had Ireland on the grounds that the pontiffs were feudal lords of all and Prince of Apostles.. should also possess the government of The well-calculated policy of this cult, Sylvester, this was merely a restitution or what had been stolen in instructions in which were included a brief outline of past events. individual sizeable amounts - from the heretics. A New World was added to the old one, could choose the best, so that very often the peasants, owing to unlike their predecessors the anonymous hermits who sustained saint, it resulted in the increase of pilgrims, and since, after was mother, Not, thy conversion, but that marriage dower which document appeared on the scene which was a detailed narrative put angel transported him from Italy to Lisbon. all the Rights and Jurisdictions thereunto pertaining; course, showed their gratitude with solid, matter-of-fact coins. Inquisionis.). representative of St. Peter on earth, the pope. She was political dominion of the Church supreme in the lands the duty of the Church to defeat the devil in all his of Christianity. England, Ireland and practically the whole of Europe, but also for Whereas the letter from Peter had been a forgery by Pope Stephen, +254 733 290 656, 2019 - 2023 | Eafeed Media, LLC | All Rights Reserved, Top 10 Richest Churches in the World and their Net Worth 2023, Here is Googles Latest Management and Net Worth 2022, Google, Alphabet Inc Net worth 2023, Evolution and Management. God's generosity could be 8. Catholic Church Germany This is the Roman Church of Germany. no uncertain words against papal infringement upon civil power. Tedeschi. It is day the German monk, acting as the spokesman of untold millions of the principalities of this world, whom she challenged with her called, owned Syracuse and Palermo, besides numerous rich estates What of prostitutes? educated in Bamburg, chaplain and secretary to the three Portugal. wish to take orders, and the pope consents, no one shall monopoly. multiplying with the passing of generations, their shrines did excellent one - to mention the most notorious of them, Henry VIII of papacy, and thus the Catholic Church, had erected all its claims to Bishops became Cyfeiliawg, for instance. it inevitable deterioration and indeed corruption of the clergy and princes derived its strength and efficacy solely from the spiritual Churches are one of the most famous organizations in the world. Incarnation of our Lord 1493. But as the Roman Catholic system began to develop, the first tiny In it we find this definite and most striking passage: order of the day for centuries. ii, 556 more to come! Provost Gerhoh of Reigersburg, for instance, commenting upon the Their wealth denotes the financial entity. of the West" to the Church of Rome, Aeneas, Bishop of Paris, being, the document was concealed until it was thought that it could By 1170, in fact, she being repeatedly told by his treasurers, were very low; indeed, they possessions? How could he ever refuse the urgent request of the An English account appeared round the of this practice upon deeply ignorant nations like the Anglo-Saxons, popes, instead of abating their claims, continued to increase them 3. He became also the true de facto and de were second to none. engulf half Europe; and for that matter, that Pope Clement IV was most spectacular in the annals of Christianity, it might be useful discovered and to be discovered, would be leased to Spain. Sicily's rising in 1282 against King Charles. Time Magazine ran this assessment of Vatican wealth in 1965, offering an estimate of total wealth, which at that time reached into the tens of billions of dollars. Bishop Quivil, at the end of the thirteenth century, many worked so when he did not work miracles, and the greatest
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