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| | A New Form of Papal Teaching? By Hermann J. Pottmeyer, AMERICA, April 3, 1999 |
 | | The letter also reminds readers of the expanded "profession of faith" (Professio fidei) and the "Oath of Fidelity" which the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith published in 1989 and which are to be made at entrance upon numerous ecclesiastical offices. | | | The first example given of truths connected with revelation by logical necessity is the doctrine of papal infallibility, which initially was regarded as definitive but not as revealed, but was finally defined as revealed by Vatican I. The second example given by Cardinal Ratzinger is the teaching of Ordinatio sacerdotalis. | | | In its structure the commentary follows the three additions to the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, which the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith made binding in 1989, along with the Oath of Fidelity to be taken at entrance upon ecclesiastical offices. |
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http://www.americamagazine.org/articles/pottmeynew.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: English Post-Reformation Oaths |
| | In 1774 an oath was proposed of allegiance to King George (§ 1) and rejection of the Pretender (§ 2), but without prejudice to the pope's spiritual authority, or to any dogma of the Faith. | | | But to call God to witness that one execrated it as "impious, heretical and damnable", was what no God-fearing adherent of the old Faith, who knew what he said and to whom he spoke, could conscientiously do. | | | Doctor William Bishop, for instance, did this, but still underwent imprisonment for refusing the oath; and he was afterwards made a bishop by the Holy See. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11177a.htm
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| | Vacantis Apostolicae Sedis |
| | Then rising he pro nounces in a clear and intelligible voice this oath: "I call to witness Jesus Christ, who will judge me, that I am electing the one who I judge according to.God should be elected." He then places the ballot on the paten and slides it into the chalice. | | | The only motive of the electors is to be the election of the one who is best fitted to govern the universal Church fruitfully and usefully. | | | All who arc to guard the Conclave then take the oath in the presence of the Sacred College, and the Cardinals retire to the rooms assigned to them. |
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http://www.catholiccouncil.homestead.com/VacantisSedisApostolicae.html
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| | CATHOLIC VICTORY IN 1960? |
| | Many other papal Bulls contain the same dogma; the State is said to have no other rights than those delegated to her by the Church. | | | Then, by means of false accusations and excommunications of rulers, by means of interdicts (depriving entire nations of the means of salvation), the popes were able to subdue the rulers of Western Europe, to subject them to feudal taxes (Peter's Pence) and to absorb their independent churches into the Roman Catholic Church. | | | The (Roman) Church is not a true, perfect and entirely independent society, nor does she enjoy specific and perpetual rights conferred upon her by Divine Founder, but it belongs to the civil power to define what are the rights and limits within which the Church may exercise her rights. |
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http://www.adventist4truth.com/Library/victory.html
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| | Papal Coronation Oath refused by Karol Wojtyla |
| | This sacred oath was taken, as recorded in Church annals, by every Sovereign Pontiff of the Catholic Church since Pope Saint Agatho in June 27, 678. | | | I'll try to say again waht I mean: 1) Yes, our present Holy Father did not take the oath by his election as Pope (1978); 2) But also he did not formally cancel the oath in the Book of the Election's Ceremony, when he revised the Rules of the Election of the Pope (1996). | | | I will put outside the Church whoever dares to go against this oath, may it be somebody else or I. "If I should undertake to act in anything of contrary sense, or should permit that it will be executed, Thou willst not be merciful to me on the dreadful Day of Divine Justice. |
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http://www.trosch.org/lit/papal_coronation_oath.html
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| | Papal election - irc4ever.net |
| | A papal election is the method by which the Roman Catholic Church fills the office of Bishop of Rome, whose incumbent is known as the Pope, the head of the Church. | | | The Cardinals then take an oath to observe the procedures set down by the apostolic constitutions; to, if elected, defend the liberty of the Holy See ; to maintain secrecy; and to disregard the instructions of secular authorities on voting. | | | In 898, riots forced John IX to recognise the superintendence of the Holy Roman Emperor; the local secular rulers in Rome also continued to exert a great influence, especially during the tenth century period known as the pornocracy. |
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http://www.irc4ever.net/wiki/Papal_election
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| | UniversiDominiciGregis |
| | Rather, having before their eyes solely the glory of God and the good of the Church, and having prayed for divine assistance, they shall give their vote to the person, even outside the College of Cardinals, who in their judgment is most suited to govern the universal Church in a fruitful and beneficial way. | | | Having reached the altar, the Cardinal elector says aloud the words of the following oath: I call as my witness Christ the Lord who will be my judge, that my vote is given to the one who before God I think should be elected. | | | We likewise promise, pledge and swear that whichever of us by divine disposition is elected Roman Pontiff will commit himself faithfully to carrying out the munus Petrinum of Pastor of the Universal Church and will not fail to affirm and defend strenuously the spiritual and temporal rights and the liberty of the Holy See. |
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http://www.vaticaninexile.homestead.com/UniversiDominiciGregis.html
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| | The "Captivity" was a blow to Papal Prestige. | | | And Papal Corruption was just as glaring in their Secular Kingdom as in their Spiritual Kingdom. | | | I do further declare that the doctrines of the churches of England and Scotland, of the Calvinists, Huguenots and others of the name Protestants or Liberals to be damnable, and they themselves damned and to be damned who will not forsake the same. |
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http://www.biblestudysite.com/history2.htm
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| | The Papacy and the French Revolution (Michael Broach) |
| | In addition, the political turmoil over the oath and the Constitutional church was heightened when the King received communion from a non-juring priest on Easter Sunday 1791. | | | According to Timothy Tackett, one of the major concerns over the taking of the oath was that communities might lose their priests, or that priests who did not sign the oath for reasons of conscience might be replaced. | | | Those who affirmed the oath to the Civil Constitution became part of the newly formed Constitutional Church and those who rejected were known as non-juring or refractory priests. |
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http://www.broachweb.com/docs/history/papacy-frenchrev.htm
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| | papal encyclicals and marx - some extracts: on socialism and liberalism |
| | The violation of any solemn oath, as well as any wicked and flagitious action repugnant to the eternal law, is not only not blamable but is altogether lawful and worthy of the highest praise when done through love of country. | | | papal encyclicals and marx - some extracts: on socialism and liberalism gives extracts from papal encyclicals that are critical of its competing religion, socialism. | | | Therefore, faithfully adhering to the tradition received from the beginning of the christian faith, to the glory of God our savior, for the exaltation of the Catholic religion and for the salvation of the christian |
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http://www.abelard.org/briefings/marxism-encyclicals2.asp
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| | Loyalty |
| | On February 25, 1989, the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith issued an Oath of Fidelity (a Profession of Faith) to be taken by all faithful who are called to exercise an office in the name of the church according to the formula approved by the Apostolic See (cf. | | | I, N......, firmly embrace and accept each and every definition that has been set forth and declared by the unerring teaching authority of the Church, especially those principal truths that are directly opposed to the errors of this day. | | | The texts of the new formulas of the profession of faith and of the oath of fidelity took effect on March 1, 1989. |
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http://www.oswc.org/Loyalty.asp
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| | PART II : THE OTHER ACTS OF DIVINE WORSHIP |
| | 1200 §1 A person who freely swears on oath to do something is specially obliged by the virtue of religion to fulfill that which he or she asserted by the oath. | | | 1199 §1 An oath is the invocation of the divine Name as witness to the truth. | | | It cannot be taken except in truth, judgment and justice. |
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| | Papal Tiara |
| | As with all other modern coronations, the ceremony itself was only symbolic; the person duly elected became pope and Bishop of Rome the moment he accepted his election in the Conclave, as popes John Paul I and II showed by declining a coronation. | | | When popes were crowned, the words 'Father of princes and kings, Ruler of the world, Vicar of our Saviour Jesus Christ' were used, perhaps indicating the definitive meaning of the three crowns, though there is no evidence that that coronation oath is based on the originally intended meaning attached to the three tier tiara. | | | At least one 'claimant' to the papacy after Paul VI's death, Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, of the conservative catholic Palmar de Troya movement, and who was 'proclaimed' as 'Pope Gregory XVII' by his followers in Seville, Spain in 1978, was 'crowned' using what a 'new' 'papal tiara', showing the power of its symbolism. |
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http://www.ukpedia.com/p/papal-tiara.html
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| | Regia Anglorum - Why the Pope Supported William's Invasion of England |
| | Papal support in the form of the Papal Banner, a Relic and a Papal Blessing were issued. | | | For not only was Harold of England on trail as an oath breaker and a violator of sacred relics but also the Church and State of England was brought under question. | | | When Harold broke his oath to support Duke William's claim to the English throne, it fell on two members of the church to find a solution from which the Church would most benefit. |
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http://www.regia.org/history/papalpolitics.htm
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| | CouncilComment |
| | It was for the love of God and His Church that We undertook the Papal Election effort in the late '80's and 1990. | | | for the Church until a papal election could be held. | | | Unity requires that we all profess the same Faith Jesus taught the Apostles. |
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http://www.homestead.com/popemichael/CouncilComment.html
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| | Catholic World News (CWN) |
| | Then the assembled cardinals hear an exhortation from a priest who is chosen by the general congregation, on the basis of his "sound doctrine, wisdom, and moral authority," who encourages them to the task at hand. | | | Cardinals Ratzinger and Kasper have disagreed about the ecumenical import of the Vatican statement Dominus Jesus; the papal master of ceremonies has contradicted the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship regarding the propriety of liturgical dance. | | | Cardinals will also visit each other socially in the days before the conclave, and although their discussions theoretically should not focus on the papal election, inevitably they will talk about the challenges that face the Church. |
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http://www.cwnews.com/news/cwreport_featured.cfm
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| | Creeds of Christendom Volume I (vi.xiii) |
| | Gregory would rather call himself 'the servant of the servants of God,' which, in the mouths of his successors, pretending to be Bishops of bishops and Lords of lords, has become a shameless irony. | | | This whole business of the Vulgate is sufficient to explode Papal Infallibility; for it touches the very source of divine revelation. | | | Papal Infallibility Explained, and Tested by Scripture and Tradition. |
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http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/creeds1.vi.xiii.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Council of Basle |
| | They even went so far as to appoint a governor for the territory of Avignon and to forbid any papal embassy to approach Basle unless letters of safe-conduct had been previously requested and granted. | | | On the other hand, writers like Bellarmine (De Concil., I, vii), Roncaglia, and Holstein absolutely refuse to number Basle among the general councils of the Church on account of the small number of bishops in attendance at the beginning, and the subsequent rebellious attitude in face of the papal decrees of dissolution. | | | Sigismund was in constant communication with the pope and urged him to make some concessions. |
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| | On the Oath Against Modernism (by Bishop Pivarunas, CMRI) |
| | Christ’s command to His Apostles “to teach all nations all things” and His promise to be with His Church “all days even to the consummation of the world,” guarantee in every age the preservation of these divine truths. | | | Of all the aspects of the Oath, this fourth point is the most important for us to consider. | | | From the time of its abrogation, the modernist clergy, who had previously remained hidden, boldly came forth with the most absurd theories and errors in regard to the interpretation of Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition and the doctrines of our Catholic Faith. |
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| | To put this as plainly as possible: if the sacraments of the church were rendered invalid by the Schism, no Christian, pursuing pilgrimage or not, could be hopeful of salvation until unity was restored to the church. | | | Kaminsky by no means denies or minimizes the terrible dilemma faced by the church over the issue of the apostolic succession to the throne of St. Peter that was initiated by the Schism. | | | In general terms, nearly everyone agreed that the church could not resolve the Schism on its own. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/9976/chaucer2.html
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| | [No title] |
| | Not only is Benedict-Ratzinger the third post-conciliar pope not to be crowned as pope (or to take the traditional papal oath, so far as we know), but he has even removed its symbolism from his coat of arms. | | | Of course, in the period since Vatican II, the only bishop purportedly "excommunicated" was one whose only "fault" was to stand by his episcopal oath to maintain the Roman Catholic Faith. | | | Although these "princes of the Church" are free to elect any baptized male, the last time a non-cardinal was elevated to the papacy was 1378. |
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http://www.traditio.com/comment/com0504.htm
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| | Or you could, of course, take the Catholic position which would be to say that even though the Holy Ghost guarantees papal infallibility under certain circumstances, but He does not guarantee the Pope freedom from error in the Pope's government of the Church and in his private teaching. | | | This goes for all 20-some papal claimants throughout the world who have elected themselves Pope after deciding that John-Paul II was not Pope. | | | The average sedevacantist has read somewhere between two and three orders of magnitude more about Church history than you have, and are fully aware (and can document) where the Catholic encyclopaedia (even the old one) sometimes oversimplifies its information to the point of distortion. |
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http://members.lycos.co.uk/jloughnan/ruby2.htm
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| | "I believe that the burden should not be on those individuals to speak up and request an oath that does not mention God or use the Christian Bible,"... | | | Judge James M. Honeycutt said in a letter that the court system is seeing an increasing number of people from other cultures that are not necessarily Christian. | | | The Honolulu Police Department has been bombarded with telephone calls, e-mails and letters from all over the country urging it to retain the phrase "so help me God" in its oath. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=oath
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| | New Catholic Dictionary: papal deposing power |
| | The exercise of that papal right by which the sovereign pontiff authoritatively decides, from the spiritual standpoint, whether a ruler is so flagrantly in opposition to religion and morality as to entitle his subjects to be released from their allegiance to him. | | | Not a few princes (Stephen of Hungary, 1000, and Roger II of Sicily, 1130) offered their kingdoms as fiefs to the Holy See, acknowledging themselves as its vassals. | | | Bearing these conditions in mind, it is readily seen that when the pope released subjects from their oath of allegiance, he was carrying out the provisions of civil constitutions and exercising a right conceded him by law. |
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| | Secondary Sources: Queen Elizabeth by Edward Spencer Beesly, 1892: Chapter VII |
| | The Irish branch of the Papal attack, the landing of the legate Sanders, the insurrection of Desmond (1579-1583), the massacre of the Pope's Italian soldiers at Smerwick (1580), must be passed over here. | | | To those who had held any ecclesiastical office, or who should openly disapprove of the established worship, or celebrate or hear mass, the oath might be tendered a second time, with the penalties of high treason for refusal. | | | We have seen that under the Act of Supremacy, in the first year of Elizabeth, the oath was only tendered to persons holding office, spiritual or temporal, under the crown, and that the penalty for refusing it was only deprivation. |
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| | Papal Oath of Office |
| | On October 25, 1998, the Feast of Christ the King, immediately prior to his first Papal Mass, Pope Pius XIII took the Papal Oath of Office. | | | If I should undertake to act in anything of contrary sense, or should permit that it will be executed, Thou willst not be merciful to me on the dreadful day of Divine Justice. | | | It sets the stage and direction for the agenda which the pontiff will follow. |
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| | Articles - Papal Inauguration |
| | Traditional Catholics, whether sedevacantist or not, consider the absence of the Coronation and Oath to be particularly wrong, with some sedevacantist groups justifying their belief that neither | | | More conservative members of the Roman Catholic Church, especially those that believe that the Second Vatican Council went too far in destroying sacred institutions lasting through millennia, have openly requested the return of the tradition of crowning popes. | | | Controversially, the modern ceremony no longer uses the obligatory Papal Oath that was previous always sworn by popes. |
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http://www.x-moto.net/articles/Papal_Inauguration
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| | How Popes are Elected |
| | "Cardinal Deacons" are members of the Roman Curia, theologians especially honored by the Pope, deacons who assist in the papal household, and the deacons who administer to the Roman dioceses. | | | So help me God and these Holy Gospels which I now touch with my hand. | | | Inside this coffin the broken papal seal and documents describing his papacy are placed. |
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http://www.kensmen.com/catholic/papalelections.html
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| | CREDO & CULTURE (credo.htm) |
| | Herein you'll find an overview of the Truths and Traditions of Holy Mother Church, consisting of Divine Revelation in Sacred Scripture, all the major ecumenical councils, the Baltimore Catechism, the catechetical teachings of Trent, papal proclamations, and St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica. | | | For those who truly want to delve deeper into what the Faith teaches and what past Sovereign Pontiffs have decreed, we recommend the following reading to better KNOW THE FAITH in order to KEEP THE FAITH: | | | No study is complete without Divine Revelation of the Word of God contained in the Sacred Scripture of the Old and New Testaments and passed down through Tradition with the Latin Vulgate and translated to the Douay-Rheims edition which is the most loyal to those traditions. |
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http://www.dailycatholic.org/issue/04Mar/credo.htm
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| | THE CHURCH TEACHES DOCUMENTS OF THE CHURCH |
| | 354 pages of famous dogmatic Church pronouncements: The Athanasian Creed, Oath against Modernism, Interpretation of Sacred Scripture, Condemnation of the Modernists, Papal Infallibility, etc. Fully indexed; excellent reference! |
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http://www.marianland.com/documents04.html
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| | CBS News Historic Papal Conclave Begins April 18, 2005 15:30:07 |
| | One by one, they filed up to a Book of the Gospels, placed their right hands on it and pronounced a second oath to keep secret their deliberations to elect a successor to Pope John Paul II, who died April 2 at age 84. | | | Ratzinger — a powerful Vatican official from Germany often mentioned as a leading papal candidate — recited a prayer at the palace before the cardinals chanted the Litany of the Saints while making the short walk to the chapel. | | | The doors to the chapel decorated with frescoes by Michelangelo and wired with electronic jamming devices to thwart eavesdropping were ceremonially shut, leaving the 115 voting "princes" of the church to decide whether to hold their first round of voting or to wait until Tuesday. |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/04/18/world/main688876.shtml
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| | Luong Tam Cong Giao -- Chao Mung Qui Ban |
| | ET, take their oath of secrecy and hear a meditation from a senior cardinal. | | | The second part was being read out by each cardinal in turn, placing his hand on a book of the Gospels in the Sistine Chapel. | | | Of the eight 20th century conclaves, none took longer than five days, and two were completed on the second day. |
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http://luongtamconggiao.com/mainpages/topicdetail.asp?topicid=1328
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| | The Papal Succession |
| | New papal attire is there in three different sizes. | | | If a Cardinal cannot walk to the altar, a Scrutineer will hear the oath and carry the ballot to the chalice for him. | | | In 1939 there were sixty-two cardinals, but the total number of people involved in the actual Conclave numbered 300. |
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| | GUY FAWKES and his day. Bibliography |
| | he oath below was administered to the 1607 Jamestown Island settlers-it adequately demonstrates the fear of the Papacy Not as a religion. | | | The plebeians rejoiced that they were free of the papal tyranny which oppressed so many others in foreign lands. | | | The Aristocraacy could tolerate the anti-authority aspect because the focus remained upon the pope. |
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| | Workers Pledge Secrecy in Papal Election (phillyBurbs.com) |
| | All those taking the oath had to be approved for their jobs by the Vatican administration and three cardinals. | | | The document warns that any of them "who directly or indirectly could in any way violate secrecy - whether by words or writing, by signs or in any other way - are absolutely obliged to avoid this, lest they incur the penalty of excommunication." | | | VATICAN CITY - Housekeepers, elevator operators and others who will come in contact with cardinals as they choose a new pope took an oath of secrecy Friday, pledging never to reveal any details of the politicking and infighting behind the selection process. |
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| | Catholic World News : All conclave officials to take oath Friday |
| | The director of the office of papal liturgies, Bishop Piero Marini | | | All of the aides who act as support staff for the conclude will be administered the oath, and each must be personally approved by the camerlengo for their roles in the conclave. | | | The priests chosen to hear the cardinals' confessions in various languages |
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| | In '96 conclave rules, Pope John Paul emphasized secrecy |
| | The cardinals and those assisting inside the conclave or at the dormlike building where the cardinals will stay are to take a solemn oath to observe "absolute and perpetual secrecy" about the election. | | | VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When Pope John Paul II rewrote the rules for the coming conclave, he emphasized repeatedly that the papal election and everything about it must remain secret. | | | The ban on divulging information related to the papal election even extends to the meetings the cardinals have before the conclave begins. |
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| | José María Blanco White |
| | Another Oriel College friend, Richard Whately, moving in a different direction from Newman, so hated intolerance and dogma that he for a while advocated disestablishment of the Church of England. | | | In 1829 he and Blanco campaigned in favour of the Roman Catholic Relief Act, which removed the anti-papal oath preventing Roman Catholics from holding public office. | | | Blanco justified his new position on the grounds of preventing civil war in Ireland. |
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| | KATV Channel 7 - New Little Rock Police Chief Takes Oath of Office |
| | Last month, city officials announced that the top position at the Little Rock Police Department had been filled, and today, the head cop in charge took his oath of office in front of several other law enforcement officials. | | | Little Rock's newest police chief, Stuart Thomas, was officially sworn into office. | | | New Little Rock Police Chief Takes Oath of Office |
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http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0405/220356.html
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