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the end Of the 9Th century. after the
death Of Pope Formosus when the re-
peated rejection of his ordinations
threw the whole Italian Church into
the greatest confusion, and produced
a general uncertainty as to whether
there We're any valid sacraments in
Italy Auxilius, who was a contem-
porary said that through this universal
rejection and repetition of orders Cor
dinatlo, ex-ordinatio. ct super-ordina-
ito matters had come to such a pass
in Rome that If the principle adopted
by Stephen, Sergius. and their adher-
ents was right, for twenty years the
Christian religion had been interrupted
and extinguished in Italy.
In the middle of the 18th century the
great contest against simony, which
was then thought equivalent to heresy,
broke out and simoniacal ordinations
were. pronounced invalid. Leo TX. re-
ordained number of persons on this
ground.
In contrast to Pope Pelagius, who
had declared, with the whole Eastern
and Western Church, the indispensable
necessity of the invocation of the Trim
ity and Baptism, Nicholas I. assured
the Bulgarians that baptism in the
name of Christ alone was quite suffi-
cient.
stephen II. 0II.) allowed marriage
with slave girl to be dissolved, and
a new one contracted whereas all pre-
yious Popes had pronounced such mar
riages indissoluble.
Celestine III. tried to loosen the mar
riage tie by declaring it dissolved if
either party became heretical. limo
cent III. annuled this decision and Ad-
rian VI. called Celestine a hereto for
giving it.
The Capernaite Doctrine, that
Christ's body is sensibly touched and
broken by the teeth in the eucharist,
an error rejected by the whole church
and contradieting the impossibility of
His body was affirmed by Nicolas II.
at the Synod of Rome in 1859.
Innocent III. betrayed his utter ig-
norance of theology when he declared
that the Fifth Book of Moses being
called Deuteronomy or the Second
Book of the Law, must bind the Chris
tian Church which is the second
church thus making the Old Tesla
ment prohibitions Of particular kinds
on Christians. And as the Jews were
allowed in Deuteronomy to put away
a wife who displeased them and take
another, Innocent ran the risk of fall
ing into a greater error than Celestine
III.
Nicolas III in the decretal, EXIT
QUI SEMINAL, gave an exposition of
the rule of St. Francis, and affirmed
the remuneration of all personal or cor
porate property to be highly meritori-
Gus: he expressly added that this expo
sition Of the rule was to have permanent
force, and like every other constitu-
tional or decretal, to be used in the
schools Il. e., universities). and liter
ally interpreted. He forbade under
pain Of accommodation all CLOSES
against the literal sense.
Clement ". in the decretal, TXIVI
DE PARADISE, renewed this ordin-
ance and John XXI. in the bull QUO
RUNDAM, declared this. ordinance of
Nicolas and Clement to be salutary,
clear, and of force. John, however.
came into conflict with the Franciscans
and in a subsequent bull declared the
distinction between use and possession
impossible, neither serviceable for the
Church or for Christian perfection,
thus completely rejecting the doctrine
of his predecessors.
The Council of Trent pronounced ST.
Jerome's version of the Bible anthem
tic for the Western Church but as
there was no authentic edition of the
Latin Bible reconized by the Church,
Sixtus v undertook to provide one
which appeared garnished with the
stereotyped form of anathema and
penal enactments. His bull declared
as a perpetual decree that this edition
corrected by his own hand. must be
received and used by everybody as the
only true and genuine one, under pain
of communication, every change,
even Of a single word being forbidden
under anathema.
But it soon appeared that it was ful'
of plumbers, some two thousand OF
them introduced by the Pope himself.
1t was said that the Bible of Sixtus V.
must be publically prohibited. But
Bellarmine advised that the peril Six
tus had brought the Church into
should be hushed UP as far as possible;
all the copies were to be called IN, and
the corrected Bible corrected anew,
unQer the name Oh olAtuS ", with eAA~
statement in the preface that the err
rors had crept in through the fault OF
the compositors and the carelessness or
others Bellarmine himself was COM
missioned by Clement VIII. TO give
circulation to these lies, to which the
Pope gave his name, by composing the
preface. In his autobiography this
Jesuit and Cardinal congratulates MINI
self of thus requiting Sixtus win
good for evil as the Pope had put ms
great work on Controversies on the
Index. And now followed fresh mis-
hap, the autobiography which was kept
in the archives of the Roman Jesults,
got known in Rome through seVeral
transcripts. On this Cardinal Azzollnl
urged that as Bellarmine had 1nsulted
three Popes and exhibited two as liars,
viz, Gregory XIV. and Clement Will,
his work should be suppressed ana
burnt, and the strictest secrecy lncui-
Gated about it.
The body of the Apostle st. Barlnoi-
onew is declared in the Roman brew
larry and MartyroIogy to have been
translated from Benevento to Rome by
the Emperor Otto III. (9S3-1002) ana
is alleged TO be entire. 1t is attesteo
by bulls of Alexander III. and Sixtus
VI. But the Church of BeneVento
claims that the entire body of ST. Bar
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