Pope claims to be God on Earth

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" The Pope is of so great dignity, and so exalted that he is not a

mere man, but as it were God. and the vicar of God. "

 

Ferraris Ecclesiastical dictionary

 

 

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" All names which in the Scriptures are applied to Christ, by virtue

of which it is established that He is over the church, all the same

names are applied to the Pope. "

 

On the Authority of the Councils, book 2, chapter 17

 

 

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" 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 " .

 

 

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" ...the Pope is as it were God on earth, sole sovereign of the

faithful of Christ, chief of kings, having plenitude of power. "

Lucius Ferraris, in " Prompta Bibliotheca Canonica, Juridica, Moralis,

Theologica, Ascetica, Polemica, Rubristica, Historica " ,

 

Volume V, article on " Papa, Article II " , titled " Concerning the

extent of Papal dignity, authority, or dominion and infallibility " ,

#1, 5, 13-15, 18, published in Petit-Montrouge (Paris) by J. P.

Migne, 1858 edition.

 

 

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" The Pope takes the place of Jesus Christ on earth...by divine right

the Pope has supreme and full power in faith, in morals over each and

every pastor and his flock. He is the true vicar, the head of the

entire church, the father and teacher of all Christians. He is the

infallible ruler, the founder of dogmas, the author of and the judge

of councils; the universal ruler of truth, the arbiter of the world,

the supreme judge of heaven and earth, the judge of all, being judged

by no one, God himself on earth. "

 

Quoted in the New York Catechism.

 

 

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These words are written in the Roman Canon Law 1685: " To believe that

our Lord God the Pope has not the power to decree as he is decreed,

is to be deemed heretical. "

 

 

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Father A. Pereira says: " It is quite certain that Popes have never

approved or rejected this title 'Lord God the Pope,' for the passage

in the gloss referred to appears in the edition of the Canon Law

published in Rome in 1580 by Gregory XIII. "

 

 

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Writers on the Canon Law say, " The Pope and God are the same, so he

has all power in heaven and earth. "

 

Barclay Cap. XXVII, p. 218. Cities Petrus Bertrandus, Pius V. -

Cardinal Cusa supports his statement.

 

 

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Pope Nicholas I declared: " the appellation of God had been confirmed

by Constantine on the Pope, who, being God, cannot be judged by man. "

 

Labb IX Dist.: 96 Can. 7, Satis evidentur, Decret Gratian Primer Para.

 

 

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" The pope is of so great dignity and so exalted that he is not a mere

man .... he is as it were God on earth, sole sovereign of the

faithful of Christ, chief of kings, having plenitude of power. "

 

Lucius Ferraris, «Prompta Bibliotheca», 1763, Volume VI, 'Papa II',

pp.25-29

 

 

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" The supreme teacher in the Church is the Roman Pontiff. Union of

minds, therefore, requires... complete submission and obedience of

will to the Church and to the Roman Pontiff, as to God Himself. "

 

Leo VIII, «On the Chief Duties of Christians as Citizens», Encyclical

letter, 1890

 

 

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" God separates those whom the Roman Pontiff, who exercises the

functions, not of mere man, but of the true God...dissolves, not by

human but rather by divine authority. "

 

Decretals of Gregory IX», Book 1, Chapter 7.3

 

 

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" Hence the Pope is crowned with a triple crown, as king of heaven and

of earth and of the lower regions (infernorum). "

 

Lucius Ferraris, «Prompta Bibliotheca», 1763, Volume VI, 'Papa II',

p.26)

 

 

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" Innocent III has written: " Indeed, it is not top much to say that in

view of the sublimity of their offices the priests are so many gods. "

 

The dignity of the priesthood by Liguori p, 36

 

 

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" The Pope is not only the representative of Jesus Christ, he is Jesus

Christ himself, hidden under the veil of flesh. "

 

Catholic National July 1895

 

 

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" We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty "

 

Pope Leo XIII Encyclical Letter of June 20, 1894

 

 

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" For thou art the shepherd, thou art the physician, thou art the

director, thou art the husbandman, finally thou art another God on

earth. "

 

Labbe and Cossart's " History of the Councils. " Vol. XIV, col. 109

 

 

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Roman Catholic Canon Law stipulates through Pope Innocent III that

the Roman pontiff is " the vicegerent upon earth, not a mere man, but

of a very God; " and in a gloss on the passage it is explained that

this is because he is the vicegerent of Christ, who is " very God and

very man. " Decretales Domini Gregorii translatione Episcoporum,

 

(on the transference of Bishops), title 7, chapter 3; Corpus Juris

Canonice (2nd Leipzig ed., 1881), col. 99; (Paris, 1612), tom. 2,

Devretales, col. 205

 

 

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" The pope is the supreme judge of the law of the land... He is the

vicegerent (replacement) of Christ, who is not only a Priest forever,

but also King of kings and Lord of lords. "

 

La Civilia Cattolica, March 18, 1871, quoted in Leonard Woosely

Bacaon, An inside view of the Vatican Council (American Tract Society

ed.), p.229

 

 

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" Christ entrusted His office to the chief pontiff;... but all power

in heaven and in earth has been given to Christ;... therefore the

chief pontiff, who is His vicar, will have this power. "

 

Corpus Juris chap. 1 column 29, translated from a gloss on the words

Porro Subesse Romano Pontiff

 

 

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" The pope is the supreme judge of the law of the land . . . He is the

vicegerent of Christ, and is not only a priest forever, but also King

of kings and Lord of lords "

 

La Civilta Cattolica, March 18, 1871.

 

 

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" All the faithful must believe that the Holy Apostolic See and the

Roman Pontiff [the Pope] possesses the primacy over the whole world,

and the Roman Pontiff is the successor of blessed Peter, Prince of

the Apostles, and is true vicar of Christ, and heed of the whole

church, and father and teacher of all Christians; and that full power

was given to him in blessed Peter to rule, feed, and govern the

universal Church by Jesus Christ our Lord. "

 

First Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Christ, " Eternal

Pastor, " published in the fourth session of the Vatican Council,

1870, chap. 3, in Philip Schaff, Creeds of Christendom. vol. 2, p.

262.

 

 

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" The Pope's authority is unlimited, incalculable; it can strike, as

Innocent III says, wherever sin is; it can punish every one; it

allows no appeal and is itself Sovereign Caprice; for the Pope

carries, according to the expression of Boniface VIII, all rights in

the Shrine of his breast. As he has now become infallible, he can by

the use of the little word, " orbi, " (which means that he turns

himself round to the whole Church) make every rule, every doctrine,

every demand, into a certain and incontestable article of Faith. No

right can stand against him, no personal or corporate liberty; or as

the [Roman Catholic] Canonists put it— " The tribunal of God and of the

pope is one and the same. "

 

Ignaz von Dollinger, " A Letter Addressed to the Archbishop of Munich "

1871; as quoted in MacDougall,

 

 

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" The Saviour Himself is the door of the sheepfold: 'I am the door of

the sheep.' Into this fold of Jesus Christ, no man may enter unless

he be led by the Sovereign Pontiff; and only if they be united to him

can men be saved, for the Roman Pontiff is the Vicar of Christ and

His personal representative on earth. "

 

(Pope John XXIII in his homily to the Bishops and faithful assisting

at his coronation on November 4, 1958).

 

 

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" This is our last lesson to you: receive it, engrave it in your

minds, all of you: by God's commandment salvation is to be found

nowhere but in the Church; the strong and effective instrument of

salvation is none other than the Roman Pontificate. "

 

(Pope Leo XIII, Allocution for the 25th anniversary of his election,

February 20, 1903; Papal Teachings: The Church, Benedictine Monks of

Solesmes, St. Paul Editions, Boston, 1962, page 653).

 

 

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" Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain

who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority and supremacy

of Peter and his legitimate successors. "

 

(Pope Pius XI, Encyclical, Mortalium animos, January 6, 1928, The

Papal Encyclicals, Claudia Carlen, I.H.M., McGrath Publishing Co.,

1981, pp. 317, 318).

 

 

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" We define that the Holy Apostolic See (the Vatican) and the Roman

Pontiff hold the primacy over the whole world. "

 

A Decree of the Council of Trent, quoted in Philippe Labbe and

Gabriel Cossart, " The Most Holy Councils, " col. 1167.

 

 

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" But as for you and your companions, you certainly sin, if, having

heard the decrees of the Apostolic See, and of the universal Church,

and the same is confirmed by Holy Writ, you refuse to follow them;

for, though your fathers were holy, do you think that their small

number, in a corner of the remotest island, is to be preferred before

the universal Church of Christ throughout the world? And if that

Columba of yours (and, I may say, ours also, if he was Christ's

servant), was a holy man and powerful in miracles, yet could he be

preferred before the most blessed prince of the Apostles to whom Our

Lord said 'Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church,

and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it, and to thee I

will give the keys of the kingdom of heaven'? " When Wilfrid had

spoken thus, the king said, " Is it true Colman, that these words were

spoken to Peter by Our Lord? " He answered, " It is true, O king! " Then

says he, " Can you show any such power given to your Columba? " Colman

answered, " None. " Then added the king, " Do you both agree that these

words were principally directed to Peter, and that the keys of heaven

were given to him by Our Lord? " They both answered. " We do. " Then the

king concluded, " And I also say unto you, that he is the door-keeper,

whom I will not contradict, but will, as far as I know and am able,

in all things obey his decrees, lest, when I come to the gates of the

kingdom of heaven, there should be none to open them, he being my

adversary who is proved to have the keys. "

 

(St. Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, quoted in

Readings from Church History, Volume I, edited by Fr. Colman Barry,

O.S.B., The Newman Press, Westminster, MD, 1966, p. 273.)

 

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