Key Facts
 Other names Benedetto Caetani
 Born 1294
 Location  Anagni, Italy
Bloodline Caetani
Married Several mistresses
Children Yes
Position Pope (1294-1303)
Died October 11, 1303

 
 Source of Facts and Important Announcement
Status Under Article 64.6 of the Covenant of One-Heaven (Pactum De Singularis Caelum) by Special Qualification shall be known as a Saint, with all sins and evil acts they performed forgiven.
Date of formal Beatification   Day of Redemption UCA[E1:Y1:A1:S1:M9:D1] also known as Fri, 21 Dec 2012.
Source of Facts Self Confession and Revelation of Sainthood by the Deceased Spirit as condition of their confirmation as a true Saint.
  Background
  Benedetto Caetani born in Anagni, 50 km south-east of Rome.
  In 1264, Benedict became part of the Roman Curia where he served as secretary to Cardinal Simon of Brie on a mission to France. Similarly, he accompanied Cardinal Ottobono Fieschi with a Papal Militia force to England (1265-1268) in order to suppress a rebellion by a group of barons against Henry III.
  In February 1296, Gaetani purchased the papacy from the cardinals for 7,000 gold florins and became Pope Boniface VIII .
 

In enriching his own family, the Caetani--especially Pietro, a son of very doubtful character--Boniface VIII entered into a bitter quarrel with the Colonna, a powerful family responsible for constantly driving the popes from Rome.

  When Stephen Cardinal Colonna, the brother of James Cardinal Colonna, seized a cargo of the pope's gold and silver destined for the Caetani family, Boniface VIII excommunicated the entire Colonna family and declared a crusade against it.
  The family replied with a manifesto in which it accused Boniface VIII of acquiring the papacy by fraud and appealed against him to the judgement of a General Council. Under the leadership of one of his cardinals, Boniface's army destroyed the property of the Colonna and scattered the family members all over Europe.
  "Both swords are in the power of the Church, the spiritual and the temporal; the spiritual is wielded in the Church by the hand of the clergy; the secular is exerted for the Church by the hand of its military ... and the spiritual power has the right to establish and guide the secular power, and also to judge it when it does not act rightly... Consequently, whoever opposes the two swords of the Church opposes the law of God." (Bull Unam Sanctam, Boniface VIII, 18 November 1302
  King Philip IV of France, supported by civilian lawyers concerned to exalt his authority against that of the pope, opposed the Bull Unam Sanctam of Boniface VIII. He summoned his Parliament in Paris and laid before it an impeachment of the pope for heresy, simony and rapacity. Boniface was specifically accused of "...wizardry, dealing with the Devil, disbelief in Jesus Christ, declaring that sins of the flesh were not sins, and causing the murder of Pope Celestine and others. He had a certain 'idol' in which a 'diabolical spirit' was enclosed whom he was in the habit of consulting É a strange voice answered him"
  In 1303, Pope Boniface VIII was seized at Anagni, to where he had fled, and was delivered to Paris to be tried. Sciarra Colonna and his embittered family were at the French court and a General Council was convened at the University of Paris. Before five archbishops, 22 bishops, many monks and friars, Boniface VIII jeered habitually at religion and morals, and made this remarkable statement: "There was no Jesus Christ and the Eucharist is just flour and water. Mary was no more a virgin than my own mother, and there is no more harm in adultery than in rubbing your hands together."
  He died on October 11, 1303 and was succeeded by Pope Clement V (1305-1314).
  Most Evil Crimes
 
 List of most evil crimes
Type Year Crime
    Of repeated incest: (1294 - 1303) That Pope Boniface VIII did commit repeated incest upon all his children, male and female and did father several illegitimate children by them.
    Of crimes against humanity: That Pope Boniface VIII did issue on February 25, 1296 a Papal Bull that decreed that all prelates or other ecclesiastical superiors who under whatsoever pretext or color shall, without authority from the Holy See, pay to laymen (general public) any part of their income or of the revenue of the Church, likewise all emperors, kings, dukes, counts, etc. who shall exact or receive such payments, incur eo ipso the sentence of excommunication. That this law represents one of the most evil acts of human history in that it establishes as church law that only what the Pope allows to be given to the poor and the people of the world is permitted and that no spontaneous acts of charity, nor any act of assistance is permitted without the threat of excommunication, therefore heresy, therefore death. This church law firmly establishes the true false charity position of the Roman Catholic Church which has persisted today.
    Of open depravity associated with cannibalism, sex and murder: (1294 – 1303 CE) That Pope Boniface VIII did open St Peters Church to regular acts of sexual orgies, ritualistic murder of children and cannibalism in the celebration of High Mass of Satanism of Christianity.
  Publishing a false statement: (1296) onwards that the Roman Catholic church has justified and continues to justify the Papal Bull of Pope Boniface VIII as church law with the false claims its purpose was to prevent the secular states of Europe, in particular France and England, from appropriating church revenues without the express prior permission of the pope. That this such wording could easily have been conceived without preventing the clergy from helping the genuinely needy. Furthermore that such false defence of the still current church law belies its true intention to prevent genuine help and release of vast church wealth to help the world and the poor, other than window dressing aid.
    Of publishing a false statement: (1294) Bern All Jews in Bern, Switzerland are killed or expelled amid claims they had ritually sacrificed Christian children.
    Of regular and institutional sodomy and murder of children: (1294-1303) That Pope Boniface VIII did institute regular sodomy of children, especially young boys and did falsely claim these acts to be in the same tradition as the ancient Greeks. Furthermore, Pope Boniface VIII did undertake such acts in St Peters Church often including the ritualized murder of his child victims after such evil sex acts.
  Of publishing a false statement: (1295) That Boniface VIII did falsely claim in a Papal Bull that every creature is subject to authority of pope. Such arrogance would otherwise be dismissed except the Roman Catholic Churches determination to enforce such arrogance for coming centuries right up to the present day, especially with the current claim of the Pope being “infallible”.
  Of murder: (1297) Palestrina 6,000 citizens of Palestrina are slaughtered after Boniface VIII orders papal troops to kill all inhabitants of town belonging to rival family.
  Of murder: (1298) Nuremburg 628 Jews are killed after Nuremburg priest spreads story that Jews drove nails through communion hosts, "thereby crucifying Christ again".
  Of murder: (1298) Nuremburg Christian Bavarian knight Rindfleisch destroys 146 Jewish communities in 6 months after hearing rumours communion hosts "had been tortured".
  Of publishing a false statement for Extortion (1300): That Pope Boniface VIII did use the tradition of pilgrimage to Rome for Christmas as a means of extorting money from the faithful by promising all Catholics that made the annual pilgrimage to Rome and made donations each year for 100 years would be forgiven of all their sins. That by February 1300, Pope Boniface VIII had extorted over 30,000 gold florins, or around $3 million (US 2006 equivalent dollars) from faithful Christians.
  Of publishing false statements: (1302) That Pope Boniface VIII did issue a false statement in the Papal Bull Unun Sanctum where he falsely stated: "We declare, say, define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman pontiff."
     
     
     
   

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