Who to trust, Pope Boniface VIII (sitting in St. Peters chair), or some guy on the internet who calls himself buffalo?
Tough decision, really.
Unam Sanctam
(Latin
the One Holy, i.e. Church), the
Bull on
papal supremacy issued 18 November, 1302, by
Boniface VIII during the dispute with
Philip the Fair, King of
France. It is named from its opening words (
see BONIFACE VIII). The
Bull was
promulgated in connection with the Roman Council of October, 1302, at which it had probably been discussed. it is not impossible that
Boniface VIII himself revised the
Bull; still it also appears that Aegidius Colonna, Archibishop of
Bourges, who had come to the council at
Rome notwithstanding the royal prohibition, influenced the text. The original of the
Bull is no longer in existence; the oldest text is to be found in the registers of
Boniface VIII in the Vatican archives “Reg. Vatic.”, L, fol. 387]. It was also incorporated in the “Corpus juris canonici” (“Extravag. Comm.”, I, vii, 1; ed. Friedberg, II, 1245). Thegenuineness of the
Bull is absolutely established by the entry of it in the official registers of the
papal Briefs, and its incorporation in the canon law. The objections to its genuineness raised by such scholars as
Damberger, Mury, and Verlaque are fully removed by this external testimony. At a later date Mury withdrew his opinion.
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Pope Boniface VIII, Bull
Unam sanctam (1302): “We are compelled in virtue of our faith to believe and maintain that there is only one holy Catholic Church, and that one is apostolic. This we firmly believe and profess without qualification. Outside this Church there is no salvation and no remission of sins, the Spouse in the Canticle proclaiming: ‘One is my dove, my perfect one. One is she of her mother, the chosen of her that bore her’ (
Canticle of Canticles 6:8); which represents the one mystical body whose head is Christ, of Christ indeed, as God. And in this, ‘one Lord, one faith, one baptism’ (Ephesians 4:5). Certainly
Noah had one ark at the time of the flood, prefiguring one Church which perfect to one cubit having one ruler and guide, namely Noe, outside of which we read all living things were destroyed… We declare, say, define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.”
but I never posted in this forum as a non Catholic.