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The Lives of the Popes, Part One of Infinity

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One must beware a rabbit hole. Some time ago, I read an excerpt from the History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle Ages, by the great pioneering nineteenth-century Catholic historian Ludwig von Pastor (whose work extends to forty volumes in its English translation). I enjoyed it so much that I started to fantasize about reading the entire series someday. But then I realized, to my great dismay, that Pastor’s biographies begin only with the two-hundred-and-sixth pope, Martin V.


Popes of the Apostolic Era

The Ten Popes of the Second Century

The First Antipope

Popes of the Lost Sheep
 

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The Little Peace of the Church

The Great Persecution

Sylvester and Constantine

 
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The First Non-Sainted Pope, 36 — Liberius (352-66)

This is the first installment of the series to be devoted to just one pope—for there is much to say about Liberius, who remains a contentious figure today. He is not only the first pope in history not to be considered a saint in the Catholic Church, but is also often used by anti-Catholic critics to argue against papal infallibility.

Since the controversy around Pope Liberius has to do with his allegedly having signed documents in favor of Arianism under duress from the emperor, it is worth establishing his anti-Arian bona fides.

 
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The title is not present ( just like the word Trinity is not present) but the office is...

In that day I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and I will clothe him with your robe, and will bind your girdle on him, and will commit your authority to his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. And I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David; he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open (Isaiah 22:20-22).

“I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven” Matthew 16:19
 
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This thread had a very small clean up. Carry on.
 
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