Quote from: dman11235 on February 18, 2014, 02:13:50 PMQuote from: oslecamo on February 18, 2014, 01:38:34 PMInterestingly enough, there seems like there was a catholic pope banning enslavement on pain of excommunication way back in 1435!Well, to be fair the US didn't take too kindly to Catholicism, and our first Catholic president faced a lot of hardship getting the vote. So being excommunicated from a church almost no one in the US wasn't a part of isn't exactly a big punishment That's pretty freaking interesting. I wonder how the other popes dealt with this Papal encyclic later down the road. Aren't those supposed to be the be-all end-all's of Catholic doctrine/Canonic Law? Can a Pope even refute another Pope's encyclic later down the road? I mean, they ARE the envoys of GOD on earth and what they speak is God's law on earth, basically, or i'm somewhat wrong here?
Quote from: oslecamo on February 18, 2014, 01:38:34 PMInterestingly enough, there seems like there was a catholic pope banning enslavement on pain of excommunication way back in 1435!Well, to be fair the US didn't take too kindly to Catholicism, and our first Catholic president faced a lot of hardship getting the vote. So being excommunicated from a church almost no one in the US wasn't a part of isn't exactly a big punishment
Interestingly enough, there seems like there was a catholic pope banning enslavement on pain of excommunication way back in 1435!
Speaking of popes, this thread needs a successor!
