This may be one of the more common citations found on the web regarding papal
claims, but until now it has been cloaked in dense obscurity, the original
documents hidden from attempts at discovery by a garbled and incomplete reference:
"The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth." Pope
Pius V, quoted in Barclay, Chapter XXVII, p. 218, "Cities Petrus Bertanous".
Well, a bit of determined research has finally cracked
this mystery. A major clue: that should read "Barclay, Chapter XXVII, p. 218,
who cites Petrus Bertrandus." And what of Pius V? Well he is mentioned
on page 219, not 218.
Ita Petrus Bertrandus in suis
additionibus ad gloss extravag. Unam Sanctum. de maior. & obed. qui &
hoc praeterea ausus est addere, quod parum a blasphemia abest.
Nam non videretur Dominus discretus fuisse (ut cum reverentia eius
loquar) nisi unicum post se talem reliquisset, qui haec omnia posset.
So
Pierre Bertrand in his gloss for Unam Sanctum had the boldness to add this, which is little removed
from
blasphemy. For our Lord would not appear to
have been discreet (that with His reverence I may so speak), if he had not left
behind one who could be all these things.
Peter Bertrand's name appears at the end of his gloss
on Unam Sanctam at the bottom of
column 214.
Pope Boniface VIII in Unam Sanctam states:
Igitur ecclesiae unius et unicae unum corpus, unum caput,
non duo capita, quasi monstrum, Christus videlicet et Christi vicarius,
Petrus, Petrique successor, dicente Domino ipsi Petro: ... Quicunque igitur
huic potestati a Deo sic ordinatae resistit, Dei ordinationi resistit, nisi
duo, sicut Manichaeus, fingat esse principia, quod falsum et haereticum
judicamus, quia, testante Moyse, non in principiis, sed in principio coelum
Deus creavit et terram. Porro subesse Romano Pontifici omni humanae
creaturae declaramus dicimus, definimus et pronunciamus omnino esse de
necessitate salutis.
Therefore, of the one and only Church there is one body
and one head, not two heads like a monster; that is, Christ and the Vicar of
Christ, Peter and the successor of Peter, ... Therefore whoever resists this
power thus ordained by God, resists the ordinance of God [Rom 13:2], unless
he invent like Manicheus two beginnings, which is false and judged by us
heretical, since according to the testimony of Moses, it is not in the
beginnings but in the beginning that God created heaven and earth [Gen 1:1].
Furthermore, we declare, we proclaim, we define that it is absolutely
necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman
Pontiff. (Unam Sanctam in English and Latin)
Pope Pius V in his bull Regnans in Excelsis,
deposing England's Queen Elisabeth in 1570, made that argument in the following
claim:
Regnans in excelsis, cui data est omnis in coelo et in
terra potestas, unum sanctam Catholicam et apostolicam ecclesiam, extra quam
nulla est salus, uni soli in terris, videlicet apostolorum principi Petro,
Petrique successori Romano pontifici, in potestatis plenitudine tradidit
gubernandam. Hunc unum super omnes gentes, et omnia regna principem constituit,
qui evellat, destruat, dissipet, disperdat, plantet, et aedificet, ut fidelem
populum mutuae charitatis nexu constrictum in unitate spiritus contineat,
salvumque et incolumem suo exhibeat salvatori. (Source)
He that reigneth on high, to whom is given all power in
heaven and earth, has committed one holy Catholic and apostolic Church, outside
of which there is no salvation, to one alone upon earth, namely to Peter, the
first of the apostles, and to Peter's successor, the pope of Rome, to be by him
governed in fullness of power. Him alone He has made ruler over all peoples and
kingdoms, to pull up, destroy, scatter, disperse, plant and build, so that he
may preserve His faithful people (knit together with the girdle of charity) in
the unity of the Spirit and present them safe and spotless to their Saviour. (Translation
source)
So, there you have it. The Pope and God are but one head,
not two. The Pope acts on earth with the fullness of the power of God in heaven as His vicar.
That is blasphemy.
Dominum Deum
Nostrum Papam
Our Lord God the Pope
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