Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]
Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.
Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy
Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy
Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]
Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]
Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]
Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.
I love our Catholic Popes and I lived through five of them - loved them all.
I would probably love you and you family too, however since it has been roughly 100 generations of Elsies since good old Pope Stephen of 897 AD and in that time (statistically speaking) your Elsie forbears have included liars, thieves, sadists, murderers, traitors, madmen and satanists (again statistically speaking).
Could you tell me how that should effect our love of Elsie??
your criminal and immoral forbears have nothing to do with my love and affection for you or any other individual.
as for the sinful popes only protestants don’t forgive and can manage to hold a grudge since 897 AD.
BTW Luther was a Roman Catholic monk who all take approximately the same vows and have for a thousand years.
Luther made his vows to God and broke them.
whatever reasons he had - he is now dealing with them eternally.
Requiat in Pacem, may his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed rest in peach. Amen
Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam