The mysteries of the faith are not to [be] explained rashly to anyone. Usually in fact, they cannot be understood by everyone but only by those who are qualified to understand them with informed intelligence. The depth of the divine Scriptures is such that not only the illiterate and uninitiated have difficulty understanding them, but also the educated and the gifted.
If it shall be necessary, through sentences of excommunication against their persons and of interdict against their lands, all backsliding being put … - Pope Innocent Iii
If it shall be necessary, through sentences of excommunication against their persons and of interdict against their lands, all backsliding being put …
- Pope Innocent Iii
This [Magna Carta] has been forced from the King. It constitutes an insult to the Holy See, a serious weakening of the royal power, a disgrace to the… - Pope Innocent Iii
This [Magna Carta] has been forced from the King. It constitutes an insult to the Holy See, a serious weakening of the royal power, a disgrace to the…
We believe that the Greeks have been punished through [the Crusades] by the just judgement of God: these Greeks who have striven to rend the Seamless… - Pope Innocent Iii
We believe that the Greeks have been punished through [the Crusades] by the just judgement of God: these Greeks who have striven to rend the Seamless…
The universal Church of the faithful is one outside of which none is saved. - Pope Innocent Iii
The universal Church of the faithful is one outside of which none is saved.
The Pope should not flatter himself about his power nor should he rashly glory in his honor and high estate, because the less he is judged by man, th… - Pope Innocent Iii
The Pope should not flatter himself about his power nor should he rashly glory in his honor and high estate, because the less he is judged by man, th…
Kill them all, for God knows His own. - Pope Innocent Iii
Kill them all, for God knows His own.
Not to oppose erroneous doctrine is to approve of it, and not to defend at all true doctrine is to suppress it. - Pope Innocent Iii
Not to oppose erroneous doctrine is to approve of it, and not to defend at all true doctrine is to suppress it.
Every cleric must obey the Pope, even if he commands what is evil; for no one may judge the Pope. - Pope Innocent Iii
Every cleric must obey the Pope, even if he commands what is evil; for no one may judge the Pope.
Crucifiers of Christ ought to be held in continual subjection. - Pope Innocent Iii
Crucifiers of Christ ought to be held in continual subjection.
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