Etched in cellulose....
HisFollower: As you know, The Vatican is a city-state that borders the city of Rome. Could you tell us where these messages etched in stone can be found in the Vatican?
SLE
Well I don't know about any stone tablets, but these heretical titles for the pope were originally brought up in a Protestant tract that went around London and other areas around 1896. It listed off several such questionable titles and such *as found in Canon Law.*
The words "Dominus Deus noster Pap"--"Our Lord God the Pope" is part of a larger quote: "To believe that Our Lord God the Pope has not the power to decree as he has decreed, is to be deemed heretical." All in all I find the larger quote more telling than the shorter one: The popes think they can speak for God. Personally I think they should perfect speaking *with* Him first.
These words appeared in the
Roman Canon Law in the Gloss on the "Extravagantes" of Pope John XXII.* "*** inter," Tit. xiv, cap. iv., ad Callem. Sexti Decretalium, Paris 1685.
Also refer to "Tentativa Theologia," a Treatise on Episcopal Rights, &c., by Father A. Pereira, Priest and Doctor of Lisbon; English translation by Mr. Landon, London, 1847. Pereira, in page 180, tells us:--"It is quite certain that Popes have never reproved or rejected this title 'Lord God the Pope' for the passage in the Gloss referred to appears in the edition of the Canon Law published in Rome in 1580 by Gregory XIII. The Index Expurgatorious of Pius V., which orders the erasure of other passages, yet leaves this one."
It is important to note that to Pope Gregory's edition is appended his Bull in these terms: "We decree, sanction, and ordain, that it shall not be permitted to any one . . . . to add to or take from, to alter or transpose, or to add any interpretation to the book of Canon Law as revised, corrected and expurgated by our command, &c." Thus leaving the words "Dominus Deus noster Papa," confirmed by his Ex-Cathedra and infallible Bull.
So far as I know, it's still never been undone or recanted or whatever it is catholics call it if a pope wants to undo something said or supported Ex-Cathedra.
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If you're really bored, you can look up the original reference via the following information:
ocation Library Code
GA EMORY UNIV, PITTS THEOL LIBR EMT
Title: Lord God our Pope (Dominus Deus Noster Papa) another God on earth \
(Alter Deus in Terris) and a reply to a pamphlet by the \
Rev. Sydney F. Smith, S.J., entitled Does the Pope claim to be God? \
Author(s): Collette, Charles Hastings, 1816-1901.
Publication: London : Protestant Alliance,
Year: 1896
Description: 20 p. ; 19 cm.
Language: English
Series: Variation: SOLINET/ASERL Cooperative Microfilming Project \
(NEH PS-21089) ;; SOL MN06540.18 EMT.
Named Person: Smith, Sydney F. (Sydney Fenn), 1843-1922. Does the Pope claim to be God?
Named Corp: Catholic Church -- Controversial literature.
Title Subject: Does the Pope claim to be God?
Note(s): Printing Master 241./ Includes bibliographical references./
Reproduction: Microfilm./ Atlanta, Ga. :/ SOLINET,/ 1997./
1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm./
(SOLINET/ASERL Cooperative Microfilming Project (NEH PS-21089) \
; SOL MN06540.18 EMT)
Class Descriptors: LC: BR55
Responsibility: by Charles Hastings Collette.
Material Type: Microfilm (mfl); Master microform (mmc)
Document Type: Book
Entry: 19970313
Update: 20040330
Accession No: OCLC: 36544203
Database: WorldCat