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On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church

By: Martin Luther

...tivity as completely blasphemous because it questioned the authority of the pope. John Glapion, the father confessor of Charles V, declared that it ... ...also turned theologian and wrote a book of 78 quarto pages dedicated to the pope, denouncing Luther and defending the Catholic positions on the sacra... ...nding the Catholic positions on the sacraments. Henry’s book so pleased the pope that he issued a special bull declaring that it was written with th... ...n of Dudum is wrong. It should have been Quum Marthae, Decretalium Gregorii IX, lib. iii, tit. XLI: de celebratione missarum, et sacramento eucharist... ...d by Jacobus de Voragine (circa 1230–1298), it is related: “And one day, as Gregory relates in his Dialogue, the people were receiving the holy Comm... ...ament which it implies. He says: “I read of the repairing of the chalice in Gregory, but do not find there the administration of the blood.” Cf. WA ... ... 77 Firmiter, Decretalium Gregorii IX, lib. i, tit I: de summa trinitate et catholica, cap. 1, sec. 3. Corpu... ... From the above every one will readily understand the often quoted saying of Gregory 108 : “A mass celebrated by a wicked priest is not to be conside... ...y. PE 2, 123. 143 Ibid., 75. 144 Magnae devotionis, Decretalium Gregorii IX, lib iii, tit. XXXIV: de voto voti redemptione, cap. 7. Corpua Iuris ...

...hin the Catholic Church and what they should or do represent. The book is seemingly set in an "angry tone" as this was the first time he accused the pope of being the Antichrist. Luther's book was further published in German by his opponent Franciscan Thomas Murner, in hopes that he would make people aware of the foolishness of supporting Luther....

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