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To: ebb tide; ealgeone
Ah, yes, good old Pope Leo X. A Medici who gained the papacy through simony (his family's money and influence). His father prevailed on his relative Innocent VIII to name him cardinal-deacon of Santa Maria in Domnica on 8 March 1488 when he was age 13, although he was not allowed to wear the insignia or share in the deliberations of the college until three years later. In 1517 he led a costly war that succeeded in securing his nephew as duke of Urbino, but which damaged the papal finances. He later only narrowly escaped a plot by some cardinals to poison him. He borrowed and spent heavily. A significant patron of the arts, upon election Leo is alleged to have said, "Since God has given us the papacy, let us enjoy it". He was behind the granting of indulgences for money to build St. Peter's Basilica. [Yeah, like HE was a good example.] On 15 March 1513, he was ordained priest, and consecrated as bishop on 17 March. He was crowned Pope on 19 March 1513 at the age of 37. He was the last non-priest to be elected Pope. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_X

Let me guess, your favorite "error" in his list is:

33. That heretics be burned is against the will of the Spirit.

Don't you have a few anti-Pope Francis threads to tend? Strange that you condemn Luther when you are guilty of some of the SAME things.

80 posted on 08/18/2017 9:12:57 PM PDT by boatbums (The Law is a storm which wrecks your hopes of self-salvation, but washes you upon the Rock of Ages.)
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To: boatbums
Strange that you condemn Luther when you are guilty of some of the SAME things.

Yet he's oblivious to that.

81 posted on 08/18/2017 9:14:30 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: boatbums
Don't you have a few anti-Pope Francis threads to tend?

You're funny being a prot who claims to know who is an anti-pope.

82 posted on 08/18/2017 9:37:53 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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