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The worst pope in the history: Boniface VIII


Boniface VIII
(C.1230-1303)


Kimmo Huosionmaa

Pope Boniface VIII (born Benedetto Caetani) c.1230-1303. was the worst pope in the world. He was cynical, despotic and believed magic and some other things. So he was superstitious. The picture of him was painted as the egg-shaped helmet on his head. This pope was the very bad thing for the church. But the question is why this particular pope was mentioned as the worst thing for the church but was he worse than some Borgia? Why was this pope so denigrated and hated? Did he make something, what made the leaders of the church to force the people to deny the relationship about this man?  Also, other popes were lived in sinful life, and they didn’t denigrate by the church?


Did this cynical man found something in the Vatican, what caused the force to deny his personality? By the way, I must ask one question, was the crime of that pope, that he was not some fanatic or otherwise the people, who seemed like “real believer? And what made him untouchable during his life? In that time if there were problems with some pope, that person would be poisoned or otherwise murdered. So why this unpopular pope didn’t face that fate? And was Boniface VIII so unpopular during his life? This man got votes from the conclave to rise as the most powerful man in the Catholic church in 1294.  He was in his office almost nine years until his death in the year 1303.


Boniface VIII was quite old when he died, even if the birth year of this man were not marked exactly sharp. The age of over 70  was quite much at that time, there were no antibiotics and other conditions of life were not at the same level than today. The reason for the denigration of this pope could not be that this man persecuted somebody. In that time there were lots of people for persecuting, and if the pope mentioned somebody by name, could his enemies find those persons and they might ask what those people made for the most powerful man in Europe?


All heads of the Catholic church came from noble families in the medieval time. The noble status protected them against ordinary people, who were scared by religious and superstition afraid of the Roman Catholic church more than anything else, and sometimes the priests made the sin. And those children were, of course, perfect persons for the high ranking officials for that system. The parents were well known and the church could control the growth of the child. The noble families were perfect places for those children because they were so powerful, that Catholic church could use them as the shield, what covers it secrets from normal or ordinary people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Boniface_VIII

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