Anonymous ID: ca9f4a Feb. 19, 2024, 1:54 a.m. No.20439617   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>9624 >>9650 >>9694 >>9713

The keeper of the Vatican’s secrets is retiring. Here’s what he wants you to know

 

The longtime prefect of the Vatican Secret Archive is spilling the beans for the first time

ByNICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press

February 19, 2024, 1:03 AM

 

''Aside from the well-known stories of Vatican intrigue, the book also reveals some novelties, including the origins of the important financial relationship between the U.S. church and the Vatican that continues today and dates back to the 1922 conclave.

 

Pagano said that after Pope Benedict XV died, the camerlengo — the cardinal in charge of the papal treasury and accounts — went to his safe and discovered it was “literally empty. There wasn’t a paper, bank note or coin.” It turns out Benedict wasn’t terribly responsible fiscally, and left the Holy See somewhat in the red when he died on Jan. 22 of that year.

 

Papal coffers were always used to fund the conclave to elect a new pope, meaning the Holy See was in a cash crunch at a time when Europe was still reeling financially from World War I.

 

The book, for the first time, reproduces the encrypted telegrams in which the Vatican secretary of state asked his ambassador in Washington to urgently wire “what you have in the safe” so that the vote could take place.

 

According to the telegrams, the Vatican embassy sent what U.S. churches had collected from the American faithful, down to the cents: $210,400.09, allowing the vote that eventually elected Pope Pius XI.

 

Pagano suggests that Francis' 2019 decision to remove the word “Secret” from the archive's name and rename it the “Vatican Apostolic Archive” was perhaps another financial nod to the wealthy U.S. church — a rebranding to remove any negative connotations and thus encourage potential donations, primarily via “Treasures of History,” a new U.S.-based foundation that supports the archive.

 

At the end of the interview, Pagano proudly showed visitors one of the archive’s prized possessions, which he keeps in an otherwise nondescript wooden armoire near the entrance of his office. There, behind plate glass and illuminated with special lights, is the original 1530 letter from British nobles urging Pope Clement VII to grant King Henry VIII an annulment so he could marry Anne Boleyn.

 

As is well known, the pope refused and the king went ahead and got married, breaking with Rome.

 

“You can say that here we are at the birth of the Anglican Church,” Pagano says as he holds up a light-tipped pointer to show off the red wax seals of some of the signatories.

 

Pagano delights in revealing how the document survived: When Napoleon Bonaparte famously seized the Vatican archives in 1810 and carted them off to Paris, Pagano’s predecessor as chief archivist rolled up the 1530 letter and hid it inside a secret drawer in a chair in the archive antechamber.

 

“The French never found it,” Pagano says proudly, keenly aware that an archivist’s main job is to preserve the archive.''

 

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/keeper-vaticans-secrets-retiring-heres-107336586

Anonymous ID: ca9f4a Feb. 19, 2024, 2:22 a.m. No.20439686   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>9737 >>9743 >>9745

>>20439642

 

 

Decree On the Means of Social Communication, Inter Mirifica

Author: Second Vatican Council

 

DECREE ON THE MEANS OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS

INTER MIRIFICA

 

SOLEMNLY PROMULGATED BY

HIS HOLINESS POPE PAUL VI

ON DECEMBER 4, 1963

 

INTRODUCTION

 

  1. Among the wonderful technological discoveries which men of talent, especially in the present era, have made with God's help, the Church welcomes and promotes with special interest those which have a most direct relation to men's minds and which have uncovered new avenues of communicating most readily news, views and teachings of every sort. The most important of these inventions are those media which, such as the press, movies, radio, television and the like, can, of their very nature, reach and influence, not only individuals, but the very masses and the whole of human society, and thus can rightly be called the media of social communication.

 

  1. The Church recognizes that these media, if properly utilized, can be of great service to mankind, since they greatly contribute to men's entertainment and instruction as well as to the spread and support of the Kingdom of God. The Church recognizes, too, that men can employ these media contrary to the plan of the Creator and to their own loss. Indeed, the Church experiences maternal grief at the harm all too often done to society by their evil use. Hence, this sacred Synod, attentive to the watchful concern manifested by the Supreme Pontiffs and Bishops in a matter of such great importance, judges it to be its duty to treat of the principal questions linked with the media of social communication. It trusts, moreover, that the teaching and regulations it thus sets forth will serve to promote, not only the eternal welfare of Christians, but also the progress of all mankind.

 

https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/decree-on-the-means-of-social-communication-1514

 

https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/16-documents-of-the-second-vatican-council-1509

Anonymous ID: ca9f4a Feb. 19, 2024, 2:27 a.m. No.20439694   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>9696 >>9715

>>20439617

Pagano suggests that Francis' 2019 decision to remove the word “Secret” from the archive's name and rename it the “Vatican Apostolic Archive” was perhaps another financial nod to the wealthy U.S. church —a rebranding to remove any negative connotations and thus encourage potential donations, primarily via “Treasures of History,” a new U.S.-based foundation that supports the archive.

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>>20439650

Anonymous ID: ca9f4a Feb. 19, 2024, 2:36 a.m. No.20439713   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>9737 >>9743 >>9745

>>20439617

'Aside from the well-known stories of Vatican intrigue, the book also reveals some novelties, including the origins of the important financial relationship between the U.S. church and the Vatican that continues today and dates back to the 1922 conclave.

 

Broke Vatican NEEDS the U.S.! now the u.s. is broke like all their other countries of influence.

Anonymous ID: ca9f4a Feb. 19, 2024, 2:49 a.m. No.20439737   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>9743 >>9745

>>20439713

 

>>20439728

>>20439686

the BAD POPE

 

https://popes.substack.com/p/a-bad-pope-gets-elected

A bad pope gets elected…and then causes the Reformation

 

Mar 9, 2022 … Pope Leo X, the last non-priest to ascend to the Chair of Peter, was among the baddest of Bad Popes.

 

 

Pope Leo X

Head of the Catholic Church from 1513 to 1521

 

Pope Leo X (Italian: Leone X; born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, 11 December 1475 – 1 December 1521) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 9 March 1513 to his death, in December 1521.

 

Born into the prominent political and banking Medici family of Florence, Giovanni was the second son of Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of the Florentine Republic, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1489. Following the death of Pope Julius II, Giovanni was elected pope after securing the backing of the younger members of the College of Cardinals. Early on in his rule he oversaw the closing sessions of the Fifth Council of the Lateran, but struggled to implement the reforms agreed. In 1517 he led a costly war that succeeded in securing his nephew Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici as Duke of Urbino, but reduced papal finances.

 

In Protestant circles, Leo is associated with granting indulgences for those who donated to reconstruct St. Peter's Basilica, a practice that was soon challenged by Martin Luther's 95 Theses. Leo rejected the Protestant Reformation, and his Papal bull of 1520, Exsurge Domine, condemned Luther's condemnatory stance, rendering ongoing communication difficult.

 

He borrowed and spent money without circumspection and was a significant patron of the arts. Under his reign, progress was made on the rebuilding of St. Peter's Basilica and artists such as Raphael decorated the Vatican rooms. Leo also reorganised the Roman University, and promoted the study of literature, poetry and antiquities. He died in 1521 and is buried in Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome. He was the last pope not to have been in priestly orders at the time of his election to the papacy.

More from Wikipedia

Wikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license

 

 

https://popes.substack.com/p/a-bad-pope-gets-elected

A bad pope gets elected…and then causes the Reformation

 

compare/contrast: The Black Prince

>>20439659

Anonymous ID: ca9f4a Feb. 19, 2024, 2:51 a.m. No.20439743   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>9745

>>20439713

 

>>20439728

>>20439686

the BAD POPE

 

https://popes.substack.com/p/a-bad-pope-gets-elected

A bad pope gets elected…and then causes the Reformation

 

Mar 9, 2022 … Pope Leo X, the last non-priest to ascend to the Chair of Peter, was among the baddest of Bad Popes.

 

 

Pope Leo X

Head of the Catholic Church from 1513 to 1521

 

Pope Leo X (Italian: Leone X; born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, 11 December 1475 – 1 December 1521) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 9 March 1513 to his death, in December 1521.

 

Born into the prominent political and banking Medici family of Florence, Giovanni was the second son of Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of the Florentine Republic, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1489. Following the death of Pope Julius II, Giovanni was elected pope after securing the backing of the younger members of the College of Cardinals. Early on in his rule he oversaw the closing sessions of the Fifth Council of the Lateran, but struggled to implement the reforms agreed. In 1517 he led a costly war that succeeded in securing his nephew Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici as Duke of Urbino, but reduced papal finances.

 

In Protestant circles, Leo is associated with granting indulgences for those who donated to reconstruct St. Peter's Basilica, a practice that was soon challenged by Martin Luther's 95 Theses. Leo rejected the Protestant Reformation, and his Papal bull of 1520, Exsurge Domine, condemned Luther's condemnatory stance, rendering ongoing communication difficult.

 

He borrowed and spent money without circumspection and was a significant patron of the arts. Under his reign, progress was made on the rebuilding of St. Peter's Basilica and artists such as Raphael decorated the Vatican rooms. Leo also reorganised the Roman University, and promoted the study of literature, poetry and antiquities. He died in 1521 and is buried in Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome. He was the last pope not to have been in priestly orders at the time of his election to the papacy.

More from Wikipedia

Wikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license

 

 

https://popes.substack.com/p/a-bad-pope-gets-elected

A bad pope gets elected…and then causes the Reformation

 

compare/contrast: The Black Prince

>>20439659

>>20439737