The Catholic Encyclopaedia was written at the turn of the 20th century.
More work has been done on Gregory in the past 100 years - vastly more - and there is still not one shred of evidence to suggest that he wrote it.
If you're going to claim that "Gregory VII said", then you need to have hard evidence, or you're lying.
you certainly can’t say a secretary wrote it.
The secretary was its publisher. It first came to light in a book that he wrote, and no one had ever seen the document before - even though plenty of other writings of Gregory VII were publicly known.
Moreover, the language is identical to other things that the secretary wrote under his own name. All the evidence we have points to the secretary's authorship.
The only thing linking Gregory VII to its authorship is the claim made by secretary after Gregory VII was conveniently dead and could not disclaim authorship.
Commonsense applies.
“If you’re going to claim that “Gregory VII said”, then you need to have hard evidence, or you’re lying.”
Then by that standard,
If you’re going to claim, “ All the evidence we have points to the secretary’s authorship.”and “,.... then you need to have hard evidence, or you’re lying.”
You’ve made numerous broad statements but in not one reply
have you offered a source or anything beyond your opinions, certainly no, “hard evidence”, so by your statement above, whose lying? A little louder, please.
I’m up for give and take but I won’t be called a liar!
End of discussion.