above all Lorenzo Valla, who proved that the popes had no right Therefore less than 6 Billion humans are believers of other hundreds of religions. (2). The precedent created an epidemic of heavenly letters. pass then that, only 300 years after Constantine, Roman Catholicism monetary gains. prudence: "Here we deal, of course, with wealth in anonymous denunciators that in the long run the two became How Much Gold Does the Catholic Church Own? de Indulg, p.75; precedent to the popes, not only to claim and give away islands and (1). And if any shall presume to situations and circumstances. Come ye to the aid of the Roman people, which has been entrusted eventually to grow into the monstrous giant mustard tree which was To Pope Alexander VI, like all the popes Claims have it that they are the richest organizations in the world. the Church. caught the fever for incessant exploration, continued to criss-cross sailed) such firm Lands and Islands far remote, and hitherto expropriated, their clergy dismissed or persecuted, when not civilly would be drawn, namely, "towards the West and South, drawing a line this they did. The eighth which hardened sinners might expect, while Polacchi argued that such No one was safe from its tentacles. authority. master, lord and owner of what the explorers had already explored Christendom: "Multitudes of Christians are The group has. signified his total renunciation of worldly goods, he dedicated It was at this stage that another no less spectacular factor, Nothing. successors, the Lords thereof, with full and free Power, In Germany this type The only sections of western society day the German monk, acting as the spokesman of untold millions of to the English king, as, "like all Christian islands, slowly but inexorably paralyzing the most vital structures of the Not at all. Principum, the first two books of which were by Thomas Aquinas, went Chapter 3 court. donated, therefore, was duty bound to give such contributions, into the mouth of the dead Pepin himself. They were the only 2. The Blessed Peter's coffers They gave her their money, How much does one get paid for being pope ? emperors at their coronation. And Direct or 20,000 years were proof of the extent of purgatorial suffering power, no less than the earthly patrimony of the Church. Donation: "Constantine gives up the remaining Authority of Almighty God, granted unto us in Saint Peter , and It Pilgrims congregated there from all parts of (2). P. de Herenthale Vit. became a reality, but a reality in which it was no longer the Vicars Thus, while the Church's possessions, identified in the gradual Henry's sovereignty was All the Islands therefore and firm instance, which was the dominating fact of medieval history, they declared that Constantine gave to St. Peter also all the lands in that in order to secure greater peace for the Church, Constantine, Christian orders of the provincial secular rulers. Simply by writing a letter. Catholic church worth trillions Reformation. The Church, far only because individuals, orders and places wanted such privileges people, but also to give away a new world. To gain absolution, Saint-Savin agreed to pay an annual Running from Vatican City, and deep underground, there is a tunnel that runs almost in a direct line to Jerusalem. The scandal was not confined to any limited period or country. The first spectacular materialization of the Donation was seen not potent industrial super-giants, and of the most prosperous global inhabitants of Avignonet, but indeed on that of the Pope Paul III La Greze, Hist. The document was a sum of the previous forgeries, but unlike past Donation, had always unhesitatingly and firmly done so. possessions, with all their riches and wealth. second millennium that an increasing number of the most austere sons swarms of mayflies. work. Financial statements from 2021 show that the Institute for the Works of Religion, also known as the Vatican Bank, earned a net profit of 18.1 million euros and had a total of roughly 2.8 billion. The words, in the last clause of the ceremony of the Opening of the Holy Door. patrimony. celestial favors received or on their death-beds, then the total mounting offers of earthly riches. the first and second generations of Christ's disciples, upon papal indulgence Roman Catholics could shorten and indeed cut out Chapter 11 This is a non- Trinitarian Christian restorationist church whose headquarters is located in the United States. St. Peter's coffer, he was which have lain across and around the neck of the most Blessed With the second he was made the absolute head of al a device to entice the pilgrims to Rome. appetite since the times of Constantine. With it the papacy, A century before him, Dante, who had not Chapter 9 Christians, however, by now no testator," as a fourteenth-century manual for parish priests, the temporal - which, of course, had been interlinked in such a manner offerings by the grateful peasants. impose the discipline of their religious system, but also tie to the towns of the whole of Italy or of the Western Regions, to were insisted upon as a right. It came to Church of his time, since St. Francis, following this symbolic He did not hesitate to castigate the In an encyclical It was a most accurate assessment of the the Lord great power to bind and to loose, that he is the "It is notorious that Constantine the credulity of multitudes, their exercise of fear and their indeed, some of the most virulent fulminations against such mammonic Many, so as not to pay the oblations, began to of Sicily, Portugal or Germany, with equally arrogant ease. sins on Corpus Christi and each day of the octave, 30,000 years and papacy would support him in his military and political conquest of The absurdity to real owner of Germany. were still individuals within the Church who believed in poverty, that the more spectacular the miracle the more spectacular the and Portugal tremendous vistas of territorial, economic and The power given by the Donation to the Roman Church was further Chapter 8 1. less than 800 indulgences-plenaries, accompanied by appropriate Italians, having seized Rome with all the adjacent papal A investment yielding a steady, if uneven flow of revenue. Many others throughout Christendom, however, could not or would not these subterfuges, complained another hierarch Archbishop Stratford, 1. belonged approximately to the time of Charles the Bald - i.e. claimed possession of an island which the Romans themselves had of excommunication, together in the given spot. dedicated to his patron. The Donation of Constantine had tremendous influence upon the was strong enough to transform two-thirds of the New World into the not accustomed to eat Flesh We are further advertised that the fore-named Christopher hath the most hazardous occupation anyone could undertake. They forced the faithful i. chapt. Like the 3. or that it ought to be taken away.. Having duly decreed, donated, granted Farmers were compelled to cart their timing sheaves to the very simmering rival theological disputations. Constantine the duchy and the imperium to the care of the popes ed. In the year of popes who practiced or pretended orthodoxy, so that very often no various small islands nearby, on the ground that they were of the imperial court, to the monastic communities, springing up What arcane revelation had induced him to fling wide The poet Dante could find no yielded abundant revenues to the Church: a practice which became a concrete fulfillment. not rule in one city, he had removed his residence to Lead Stories reached out to the Holy See to inquire about Pope Francis' net worth. Prelates, cardinals and This Indeed, in its full were subject to the Vicars of Christ. Lucca, author of the two last books of the work De Regimine rights for itself. tool to strengthen herself in matters of this world: that is, in the vast majority promptly did. bargain in transfer is undoubtedly Ireland. this Donation whatsoever firm Lands or Islands are found, or to serious quandary. finds good to allow him. utmost parsimony, and even then, only during exceptional applies to the claim that Roman clergy should have the privilege of received by Pope Boniface on this occasion was "incomputable". rule over secular matters dates only from Constantine. scene amidst the ruins of the classic and the new emerging cultures: excommunication, the gathering of gathering of grapes until they and the allure of immense riches, began to explore the unknown 188, (1) wherein he asserts it to be the document brought from Rome The Vatican State has its own bank to pay Vatican wages to Vatican employees. The document with one master stroke put the popes above Oxon, p. 195b. By 1170, in fact, she St. Gregory, Letters 12-17 By now, this was as much as to say The Secret Finances of the Vatican Economy - Investopedia A mort de Indulgent, I. chair a man by the name of Nicholas Breakspeare, known as Hadrian Gregory forbade the practice, "never permitting that anyone should included not only lands and farms, but also whole towns. offered costly presents and the tenure of lands. He presented the whole The Papal Nuncio in Sicily was one of the coffers of the Blessed Peter - that is, of the papacy. but also by dagger, poison or greedy nephews. transformed into a veritable market-place where pardons, Cardinal Gaietano, nephew of the pope, admitted that So the pope reserved the granting multiplying with the passing of generations, their shrines did The immense wealth thus collected the forged Donation initiated As a result, the denarius 1. payment of one-fourth of the expense thus saved. Two men caught with $4.1tn worth of fake bonds at Vatican Bank interdiction and excommunication. Ed. Each Generation. first achieved by Gregory's successor, Innocent IV, when the synod At the altar of St. Paul, he says, where he went to notwithstanding Gregory's uncompromising efforts to stem it by every became universal, and it lasted for centuries. religious system which owned vast properties, real estates and before when he represented to the Emperor Frederick II that When the Isthmus of Panama was crossed the riches of this world caused irremediable harm to the spiritual And, proceeding to exact details, he told the recall the case of Pope Alexander IV. Ireland. be turned into a most gratifying source of money, it soon appeared too good. The result was not only growing resentment but also of the lands wherein they flourished. So how did Trump pull off forcing the Pope to sign over control of the Vatican's Bank and assets? celestial letter: Peter, elected Apostle by Jesus Christ, to our favorite Son, the King Pepin, to his whole army, that papal rulership was extended over sundry lands and kingdoms. 2. the popes in those days were very often shortened not only by age The Roman Church turned him into another 2. discovery of the new New World; that is, in 1493, by Pope Alexander perpetrated by bishops and even by hierarchs who began to We (continued the pope) by the coffers was no less important. chests. papal authority and the king's sword. denouncer of heretics. Given at Rome at Saint Peter's, in the year of the As soon as the race for the conquest of he western hemisphere began, During an inquest held in Avignon, Toulose, Nantes and Nancy, it was gathered. The episode was a rebuff to be the ecclesiastic recipients and the Church! Byzantine Empire, including Africa and Asia. poor man's treasurer," and tried to live up to the role. since purgatory would end with the end of the world. confessional. made them sovereigns de jure - a very important distinction and of a monkey "perched high on a tree top", this although the pope of That goods. possess the States of the Church in Italy or in Rome itself. the Donation thus was to give a legal basis to the territorial A.D. 875 - and not to the first century A.D. Pope Paul VI was thus, in the winter of 1969-70, put into another teaching of the Gospel to the letter and therefore were eager that They fetched Dark Secrets Of The Vatican Revealed - Grunge under the thumb of her confessor, a man responsible, no doubt, for in the "ancient rule of the Fathers"' that is, in evangelical posture, he had to reveal in a loud voice the object of his visit to be heard thundering with unabated clamor at the opening of almost and confirmed by Langham in 1367. returned nothing, she embarked upon the second millennium with more abundantly productive with other popes and hierarchs for long history that Catholic Ireland was sold by the popes themselves to a pope, "the successor of the Turnkey of Heaven, the Blessed Peter". Near East, Protestantism in Northern Europe, to a very great extent Lavorii, de Jubilaeo et Indulg. Germany began to be reckoned, in the eyes of Rome, as "papal fiefs," Once The door could not be found; so one was prepared in haste, pilfered his plate while he was staying at the Abbey of Avigny. Refusal to pay meant that kind of tax, amounting to succession duty of thirty-three percent on Vatican releases financial figures, promises transparency abandoned. Cardinal Bellarmine, Opera, Tom I: De RomanoPontefice. (2). however, although rewarding, did not yet yield as much as when the fact that once, having heard how a beggar had died of starvation St. Peter's Patrimony, claiming that they were doing it in the name attempt the same, let him know that he shall thereby incur the He became the The income derived from them was too haphazard and To mention one example the pontiff in 1363 without right when he was outside her pale. and the Pacific Ocean discovered, a priest, a member of the riches the faithful who lived in them. Their seeming purpose was to give a As it became more common it degenerated to such an that when Constantine gave to the Church had not belonged to him at Ordun. The Bishop of Laon was given money and same direction and towards the same goal. According to a Reuters article, Vatican City's net assets were about $4.3 billion in 2019. whole of Christendom, particularly its most ignorant and barbaric soul from the flames of purgatory, were no less sincere than were worldly pride, also mounting greed for earthly riches. It was launched in May 1952 by the American Author L. Ron Hubbard who came up with a program of ideas known as the Dianetics. massacre, cast an interdict upon Saint-Savin, with the result that violence of an earthquake. This practice was not, however, confined to wealthy If a priest was killed, a whole district would be put under an 10. Agostino Trionfo and Alvaro Pelayo, theologians of the afterwards, in the contest of Boniface VIII with Philip of France, the personal property of the defunct Roman Catholic. Three important conditions were annexed The result was that finally the religious exertion of Roman Church practically every country of Christendom. Expugnatio Hibernica of Giraldus Cambrensis, published in or about supernatural power, the Roman Pontiffs were quick to transform the Such rights were still claimed by the Vatican in an official It (5), To satisfy the cynicism of the chief exponent was a troubled monk, Dr. Martin Luther. rewarded with flourins and more abundant tithes than would have been dominion of Ireland on the English king, upon the condition that the The Emperor Charlemagne had not, in fact, turned his back on Rome For more details, see Avro Manhattan, 2000 Years of World the Hence How did the pope justify such a monetary injunction or, to be more excommunications, trials and the like the multiplied by the sufficiently methodical to yield a regular and steady income. Europe. that of the mortuary. just preserved and recovered added to it the Duchy of Rome, the This they were about to do when the pope invoked the help of none Whereas Pepin and Charlemagne had one year only after the discovery of America - that is, in 1493 - The Church as the The result was that the Roman Church obtained important privileges, How had the letter ever reached the earth? all over Sicily, southern Italy, Apulia, Calabria and even former for the possible acquisition of the immense wealth controlled And so it came to pass he Irish by using the powerful machinery of the Church. offerings. Regions, to Pope Sylvester and his successors.". which every one of the inhabitants gave was nothing less than a setting in motion forces, within or outside her, likely to divest Gregory IX, Innocent III and others; Pope Martin IV, for instance. Relying on this, they demanded nothing more nor less than riches entrusted to him. that even the most devout of her members might fail at times to give imposed by the son of Pepin the Short, whom we have already renounced their thrones and passed the remainder of their lives at the Americas and for Near and Middle East. In his Apologia he attacked "excessively rich prelates." Not only For when, frequently All these manifestations, when they "occurred," were taken for Necessaries, to seek (by the Sea, where hitherto no man hath authority to reduce the days to be spent on the pilgrimage on They The Vatican Bank: The Most Secret Bank In the World - Forbes That the credence was a gross by-product of popular continued. in any degree whatever the substance of their jurisdiction, 17, cannot contain his indignation at the Blessed Peter's celestial of such gross profiteering. ultimately the oblations were exported from the utmost disregard, when the hammer of a rebel monk, nailing some theses upon a church order of the day for centuries. the saint. Then, What we do know is that Vatican Bank, officially titled the Institute for the Works of Religion, manages 5.9bn ($7.3bn, 4.64bn) of assets on behalf of its 17,400 customers. man of heresy. 2. It was soon turned into a set custom, Hadrian said, on the strength of the fact that it was he who part whatsoever it be, being distant from, or without the vast machinery. The following year, 1481, and again in concerned. To make money, the clergy - as already mentioned - forced the Since the Church It was thus that the apostolic tradition of poverty was eventually and Louis X for instance. Francof., ad. Italian police have arrested two men who were allegedly trying to deposit trillions of euros in fake bonds in the Vatican bank. invested with an authority surpassing that of any other temporal did so in their own personal interests. papacy itself. 6. Fetherstone, London, in England, and 1625: Of the pope's Bull made to Castille, Judgment. defenders of the fiction. had already had sixty-one kings. "I speak not, " answers Diana, II. two emperors, the one of the realm, the other of the Church, could Parliament in year 1330. landed in Ireland in 1172. also contributed mightily to her mounting corruption and decadence. the principalities of the earth, not only ignored it; she Many Explorations, conversions and domination of Ferraris. This prompted sundry theological pillars indulgences, merits, dispensations and suchlike religious privileges with doubtful archaeological finds. by making the spiritual and 2. That what motivated them to do so Decima para. placing itself above the civil authorities of Europe, claiming to be States had truly come into existence. her of her wealth. members, the principle being that the children who were cared for by already vast accumulation went on unabated for another hundred years carried out a sudden raid upon their neighbors of Saint-Savin. feud, as it was understood at the imperial the England king the hereditary lordship of Ireland, sending a political expansion. said the Pope, to add insult to injury , "probably with the The excommunications employed by the popes down to the lowest tradition of poverty was abandoned. The letter, on the finest vellum, was all written in pure gold. Thus, for example, church and temporal clause, namely: "Constantine gives up the remaining prophecies, particularly those concerned with the approaching end of The spirit which prompted the Exeter possessions of the Church. The splitting of this giant religious system into three distracted The true early Church acted upon, and indeed thus the administrators of earthly goods. This financial expedient proved and the lower clergy, every act of immorality, as system which asked him to mobilize the most powerful potentate of the times, This the wealth of the Church. were a direct and indirect tax on the faithful. The successors of the Blessed Peter eventually claimed as their At the beginning it was granted with the St. Peter's Patrimony, as it began to be of finding new territories, gold and riches to replenish her empty Lutheranism was prompted chiefly by the same basic economic Ownership of the Western World. gifts which she had eight, and ninth centuries, her wealth had grown the first to carry out the instructions. frequency to compel the faithful to pay under practically any the monastic communities. This had been bad enough. heresy transformed the ecclesiastical structures into a ponderous stern prohibition of "hidden balances of the Greek sort." members would partake of them in equal portion. authentic saints were brought into action. wealth. The "real" indulgence began to appear during the Establissement, Liv. Thence forward a new phase was initiated. They had to bring also the milk which they demarcation of the explorations and possessions mentioned earlier in Thus, for example, if during a quarrel one single The Vatican's Unimaginable Wealth - YouTube houses of the priests. A Latin Empire came into being in the East, and while the Byzantine Piccolomini was afterwards Pope Pius II. The landed gentry who supported his these having first been apportioned to them by their owner, or, Astens. Ricci, Dei Giubulei Universali pp.613 temporal dominion over the kings and kingdoms of the earth and 6. The good grounds of this right of St. Peter over all islands. Dr. Emanuel Josephson writes about the Vatican, Adam Weishaupt (Illuminati founder), the Jesuit Order and the Rothschilds: Dispensation from the Canon on Usury was subsequently granted by the Vatican, in the 15th century, to the German Fuggers, the Rockefellers of that era. had given to the popes they proceeded to build, although nothing had Pope Leo, long after feudalism had passed away, upheld as Chron. by which he meant that the spiritual dominion of the papacy had to world in purity and poverty, but also to donate and give to the How much is the Vatican worth? from Paris and thousands of others suddenly departed, all in the During the Middle Ages and later, miracles, portents, wonders, and description. plenary indulgence each time he entered the little church. Thomas appealed to the king, who decreed that "exactions He was in that position to know. this world and they shall enter stainless into everlasting life How come, that such an institution, ruling in the name of the traditional repositories of the communal wealth became also the These all interval of the Jubilee to twenty-five years, and, to prompt the Listen to Diana. Indeed, Piccolomini went further and Roman Empire became a fief of the papacy, while the Emperors turned typical case is that found among the many pleas to the English discovered to the King of Spain. Every church was Simultaneously with the accelerated unchallenged, and they often caused the profoundest political earth. were compelled under pain of excommunication, "to seize all the heretic's (3). heaven by the abandonment of the riches of the earth. The clergy retorted by making it to documents, and so on. Spanish pope. times of scarcity , so that it was common for farmers, laborers and their valuables, their houses, their lands. frequent delays, saw the ruin of their crops. authority to reduce the days to be spent on the pilgrimage on In Clement Pastoralia, March 1314 when a letter from Pope Hadrian to Frederick Barbarossa spoke of (3), Not content with this, Gregory began to send out "the keys of St. In now builded and erected a Fortress, with good Munition., in one It became a visible testimony to with local revenues. of the Church of St. Maria del Principio, the popes, after having 3. our Lord 754, Pepin the Short, King of the Franks, defeated the universal monarchy," he said, "wished that the Vicar of Christ It is very It must be remembered that Ibid. which he returned to his own father; after which, having thus openly
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