Appendix 2

Here are a few examples of what some popes have "taught" (One might be entitled to ask whether "Rick Cox" and Co. hold to these beliefs on the basis that they formed a part of "the religion of Jesus" !)

  1. St Gregory I (the Great) (64th P.) said:

    1. that all sexual desire is sinful in itself - sex is only for the sake of children. Intercourse, he said, is sinful not only during pregnancy but during lactation, too. After a man slept with his wife, he may not enter a church until he had purged himself by penance and washing, for his will remains evil. Marriage is not sinful, but sex between partners assuredly is! 1 Writing to St Augustine in England: "Sexual desire is absolutely impossible without fault" - needs penance.2

    2. that priests' marriages WERE VALID - but the priest had to choose; wife or ministry! Calixtus II {160th} would later contradict Gregory I by decreeing that all clerical marriages were to be broken up - the marriages WERE INVALID!3

    3. that unbaptised babies go straight to hell and suffer there for eternity. 4

    4. "Christ alone was conceived without sin." Again and again, he said all human beings are sinful, even the holiest, with the sole exception of Christ. His reasoning and that of all the Fathers leaves no doubt in the matter. The sex act always involves sin. Mary was conceived normally, therefore in sin; Jesus was conceived virginally, therefore without original sin. 5

    5. "He alone is truly born holy who, in order that he might conquer that same condition of a corrupt nature, was not conceived by carnal conjunction.' There is here, as we noted, a denial of Mary's Immaculate Conception." 6



  2. St. Gregory II, (89th P.):

    1. "On Nov. 22, 726 he wrote to St Boniface, the apostle of Germany, to decide the fate of a man whose wife was so seriously ill she could not live with him. He ought not to marry, Gregory II decided, but he was free to do so, provided he maintained his first wife. 7

    2. "Catholic commentators from Gratian on have not been pleased to come across a pope who granted a man a divorce because his wife was incapable of having sex... 8

    3. "It is unthinkable that a pope contradicted the faith of the church, even when he has plainly done so. 9

    4. "...dissolution for non-consummation did not come in for another fivecenturies. Even when it came in, it was only for entry into religious life, not for re-entry into marriage." 10



  3. St Gregory VII {155th}

    1. In his Dictatus Papae (Mar. 1075): He decreed:

    2. xxiii) "That the Roman Church has never erred; nor will it err to all eternity, the Scripture bearing witness."

    3. xxiii) "That the Roman Pontiff, if he has been canonically ordained, undoubtedly is made a saint by the merits of St Peter".

    4. xxvi) "That he who is not at peace with the Roman Church shall not be considered Catholic." THAT should send a shiver up the spine of the OSJ/Wathenites and sedevacantists!!! 11


  4. Celestine III (173rd P.)

    1. Declared that a marriage between Christians can be dissolved if one of the parties chooses to become a heretic. For this, Adrian VI {216th P.} declared Celestine to be a heretic. "...many Roman Pontiffs were heretics. The last of them was Pope John XXII.", said Adrian. 12



  5. Nicholas III {186th P.}

    1. taught in his Decretal Exiit qui seminat (Aug. 14, 1279) that Christ had both taught & exemplified the principle of the renunciation of all personal and corporate property; for this reason the principle and practice was holy and meritorious. 13

    2. Clement V {193rd P.} gave the same teaching as Nicholas III. 14

    3. John XXII {194th P.} also maintained that teaching at first. But on Nov. 16, 1329 he issued a Bull, Quia vir reprobus, denying the possibility of distinguishing between use and possession, and condemned as hostile to the Catholic faith the principle his two predecessors had affirmed and declaring that the right to hold property pre-dated the Fall. "To say that Christ and the apostles had no property is a perversion of scripture." 15


  6. Boniface VIII {191st P.}

    1. 1296, Feb. 25: Bull - Clericos Laicos; ...none may impose taxes on clergy... else excommunication and "wrath of God and Saints Peter and Paul." Philip of France retaliated by prohibiting the export of money and valuables and by expelling foreign merchants. After some blustering Boniface had to climb down, empowering the king in July 1297 to tax the clergy in case of need without consulting Rome. The Bull Clericos Laicos was almost completely withdrawn by Bl. Benedict XI {192nd P.} 16

    2. 1301, Feb. 18: Bull - Super Cathedram; drastically limited the mendicant orders' right to preach and hear confessions. This Bull of Boniface's was annulled by Bl. Benedict XI {192nd P.} 17

    3. 1302, Nov. 18: Bull - Unam Sanctam; "...outside the Church (is) neither salvation nor remission of sins... Furthermore, we declare, state, define and pronounce that it is altogether necessary for salvation for every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff." 18


  7. Innocent VIII (211th P.)

    1. 1484, Dec.: Bull - Summis disiderantes affectibus: 19
      "Men and women straying from the Catholic faith have abandoned themselves to devils, incubi and succubi...(male and female sexual partners)"!!!

      Cardinal Manning is thought to have believed that incubi and succubae really existed.20


    2. First pope to enter into an accommodation with Christ's "enemy" - the Muslims; for 40,000 ducats yearly and gift of the "Holy Lance" he detained the Sultan's brother (the Sultan's foe) in close confinement at Rome.21


  8. St Pius V {223rd P.}

    1. In 1568, Pius V decreed it to be an eternal law that all were excommunicated who did not render obedience and pay taxes on time to Rome. This was confirmed by pope after pope - until it was dropped (and it was never revived) without explanation by Clement XI on Maundy Thursday 1770. 22


  9. Leo XIII {254th P.}

    1. His concern for reunion (he was the first to speak of "separated brothers") was expressed in his letters Praeclara (1894) and Satis cognitam (1896), the one inviting both Orthodox and Protestants to return to Rome but avoiding any mention of schism. 23


  10. Pius XI {257th P.}

    1. 1922: Unbaptised Gerard G. Marsh had married an Anglican in 1919. Pius dissolved the marriage on Nov. 6, 1924. 24

      1926: Annulled the 25 year marriage of two Protestants, Consuela Vanderbilt and the 9th Duke of Marlborough, Charles Richard John Spencer, parents of two children. Her second husband embraced Catholicism. 25

    2. 1930: In Casti connubi (on Christian Marriage - its excellence - the Pauline privilege) contrary to tradition, says that sex can be good and holy in itself! Further, "almost everything in (section 54) is against Christian tradition. Augustine and Gregory (the Great) expressly contradict everything in it. They did not distinguish between primary and secondary ends of marriage. Marriage was for procreation; that was not the primary end but the one end that could justify sexual intercourse. Any other purpose added to procreation was sin." 26


Footnotes
  1. Vicars of Christ, The Dark Side of the Papacy Peter de Rosa, Corgi Books, 1988, p.452.
  2. ibid. p.451/2.
  3. ibid. p.452.
  4. ibid. p.289, 452 & 455.
  5. ibid. p.333.
  6. ibid. p.453.
  7. ibid. p.486/7.
  8. ibid. p.487.
  9. ibid. p.487.
  10. ibid. p.487.
  11. ibid. p.80. & Popes From The Ghetto Joachim Prinz, Schocken Books, 1966; p.156/7.
  12. ibid. p.295.
  13. Thou Art Peter by A. D. Howell-Smith, Watts   Co., 1950; p.652.
  14. Oxford Dictionary of Popes
  15. ibid. & Vicars Of Christ, etc. p.297.
  16. Oxford Dictionary of Popes
  17. Oxford Dictionary of Popes
  18. Oxford Dictionary of Popes
  19. Vicars Of Christ, etc. p.256.
  20. Objections to Roman Catholicism Michael de la Bedoyere, Archbishop Thomas Roberts, S.J., and others; Pelican Books, 1966; p.22.
  21. Oxford Dictionary of Popes and Keepers of the Keys, The Pope in History MacDonald   Co. 1982; p.187.
  22. Vicars of Christ, etc. p.323.
  23. Oxford Dictionary of Popes
  24. Vicars of Christ, etc. p.491.
  25. ibid p.501. & Thou Art Peter by A. D. Howell-Smith, Watts   Co., 1950; p.404.
  26. Vicars of Christ p.456.


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