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hprints-00683151, version 2 - 19 Mar 2013 [33] Nec etiam sanctissimam illam sedem Petrique verissimum successorem ac Christi vicarium debetis contemnere. Hoc est quidem caput nostrum, quod separatum esse nequaquam convenit, quod nullum sine capite corpus potest esse perfectum. Hic est sponsus ecclesiae, hic magister navis; hic, ut vulgo dicunt, in terris Deus, cui claves regni caelorum per Petrum aliosque Petri successores Christus, redemptor noster, contulit, quamquam ecclesiae quoque non inficior datas. Hujus tanta est auctoritas, tanta potestas, tanta divinorum concessa mysteriorum cognitio, ut omni honore omnique veneratione sit dignus. Tantaeque reverentiae papalis est dignitas, ut papam, vel malum, honorare venerarique teneamur. Neque 391 temnere 392 papam quisquam debet, quamcumque libidinem, quodcumque nefas maturaverit, nisi prius ecclesia judicarit. [34] Quid de praesenti summo dicemus pontifice? Esset mihi de sua nunc sanctimonia sermo, nisi magnifice oratores regii 393 de ipsius pietate 394 , mansuetudine, aequitate, justititia et bonitate 395 dixissent. Nos illud nequaquam inficiamur, sanctissimum dominum nostrum in futuro concilio fore necessarium, ut non auctoritate solum, sed etiam 396 morum honestate proficiat. 391 nec D, M 392 spernere Z 393 Regis M 394 omit. Z 395 et bonitate : pietate Z 396 vitae et Z 86
hprints-00683151, version 2 - 19 Mar 2013 2.1. The pope is the head of the Church [33] For you should not despise the Holy See and the true successor of Peter and the Vicar of Christ 397 . He is our head which should never be separated from us, for a body cannot be complete without its head. He is the bridegroom of the Church; he is the captain of the ship; he is (as people say) God on earth. Through Peter and Peter’s successors Christ, our Saviour, has given him the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven 398 , though I do not deny that they have also been given to the Church as a whole. To him has been given so great an authority, so great a power, so great a knowledge of the divine mysteries that he is to be revered above all. Indeed, the papal dignity is so venerable that we must honour and revere the pope – even an evil one. So, whatever lust he may have indulged in, or whatever crime he may have committed, he must not be held in contempt before the Church has passed judgment 399 . 2.2. Pope Eugene IV [34] What shall I say about the present Supreme Pontiff 400 ? I would now have to speak about his holy life if the ambassadors 401 of the king had not already spoken splendidly about his piety, his clemency, his fairness, his sense of justice, and his goodness. We shall in no way deny that our Holy Lord 402 will be necessary to the future council 403 so that it may benefit not only from the authority of his office, but also from his personal moral qualities 404 . 397 Here Piccolomini expresses the traditional conception of the pope as the head of the Church … 398 Matthew 16: 13-20 399 … but in the end he states the conciliarist position that the council is ultimately above the pope and can pass judgement on him, as the Council of Constance had done 20 years before and the Council of Basle itself were to do some years later. The passage “he *the pope+ must not be held in contempt before the Church [i.e. the council] has passed judgement” is in direct contradiction of the medieval, papalist view that “the pope can be judged by nobody” (pape a nemine judicetur) 400 Eugenius IV (b 1383, p. 1431, d. 1447): pope 401 “oratores” 402 I.e. the pope 403 i.e. The Union Council 404 Eugenius IV was generally considered a stiffnecked and undiplomatic person, pope and statesman, but at the same time a man of great piety and great moral qualities 87
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