humanevitae
December 13th 2008, 12:12 AM
Pope Adrian vi wrote this to the diet of the German Nation assembled at Nuremberg, urging them to reject Lutheranism while acknowledging that it was rampant sin within the Church that had brought it forth....................................................February 1523.
We cannot even think of anything so incredible as that so great, so pious a nation (as Germany) should allow a petty monk, an apostate from that Catholic faith which for years he had preached, to seduce it from the way pointed out by the Savior and His Apostles, sealed by the blood of so many martyrs, trodden by so many wise and holy men, your forefathers, just as if Luther alone were wise, and alone had the Holy Spirit, as if the Church, to which Christ promised His presence to the end of all days, had been walking in darkness and foolishness, and on the road to destruction, until's Luther's new light came......We adjure you to lay aside all mutual hatreds, to strive for this one thing: to quench this fire and to bring back, by all ways in your power, Luther and other instigators of error and unrest into the right way........
We frankly acknowledge that God permits this persecution of His Church on account of the sins of men, and especially of prelates and clergy; of a surety that the Lord's arm is not so shortened that He cannot save us, but our sins seperate us from HIm, so that He does not hear.........We know well that for many years things deserving of abhorrence have gathered around the Holy See; sacred things have been misused, ordinances transgressed, so that in everything things have changed for the worse.....Each one of us must consider how he has fallen and be more ready to judge himself than to be judged by God in the day of His wrath.
Therefore we, in our name, give promises that we shall use all diligence to reform before all things the Roman Curia, whence, perhaps, all these evils have had their origin; thus healing will begin at the source of the sickness.....We desire to wield our power not as seeking dominion or means for enriching our kindred, but in order to restore to Christ's bride, the Church, her former beauty, to give help to the oppressed, to uplift men of virtue and learning, above all to do that which beseems a good shepherd and a successor of the blessed Peter.
From the "Cleving of Christendom" by Warren Carroll. Published by Christendom Press
p. 65
Humanevitae
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We cannot even think of anything so incredible as that so great, so pious a nation (as Germany) should allow a petty monk, an apostate from that Catholic faith which for years he had preached, to seduce it from the way pointed out by the Savior and His Apostles, sealed by the blood of so many martyrs, trodden by so many wise and holy men, your forefathers, just as if Luther alone were wise, and alone had the Holy Spirit, as if the Church, to which Christ promised His presence to the end of all days, had been walking in darkness and foolishness, and on the road to destruction, until's Luther's new light came......We adjure you to lay aside all mutual hatreds, to strive for this one thing: to quench this fire and to bring back, by all ways in your power, Luther and other instigators of error and unrest into the right way........
We frankly acknowledge that God permits this persecution of His Church on account of the sins of men, and especially of prelates and clergy; of a surety that the Lord's arm is not so shortened that He cannot save us, but our sins seperate us from HIm, so that He does not hear.........We know well that for many years things deserving of abhorrence have gathered around the Holy See; sacred things have been misused, ordinances transgressed, so that in everything things have changed for the worse.....Each one of us must consider how he has fallen and be more ready to judge himself than to be judged by God in the day of His wrath.
Therefore we, in our name, give promises that we shall use all diligence to reform before all things the Roman Curia, whence, perhaps, all these evils have had their origin; thus healing will begin at the source of the sickness.....We desire to wield our power not as seeking dominion or means for enriching our kindred, but in order to restore to Christ's bride, the Church, her former beauty, to give help to the oppressed, to uplift men of virtue and learning, above all to do that which beseems a good shepherd and a successor of the blessed Peter.
From the "Cleving of Christendom" by Warren Carroll. Published by Christendom Press
p. 65
Humanevitae
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