Editor’s Note: I share above a link to the life of Saint Hildebrand, who was consecrated Roman Pontiff today, 952 years ago. It is with his elevation to the Apostolic Throne that the Gregorian Reform of the Church began: a restoration of ecclesiastical discipline in which priests were required to give up their mistresses and clerics who purchased promotions were degraded to the state of laymen.
I recalled this momentous event in the life of the Church, 12 days before the Risen Lord visited Jorge Mario Bergoglio )in an elevator heading downwards and judged him), because of the very influential article, in Polish, entitled, “Waiting for Gregorian Reform 2.0”, published in English on Sept. 7, 2018, by Polonia Christiana, and written by the famous historian, Grzegorz Kucharczyk, who was the first to point out the powerful solution used 1000 years ago at the First Provincial Council of Sutri.
Pope Nicholas II — who in his famous Bull, In Nomine Domine, taught that in cases of irregular or corrupt elections of a anti-pope at Rome, the Catholic Faithful “obtained the right to be able” (ius potestatis) to hold a second election, of a true Catholic Pope — was also an intimate collaborator with Saint Hildebrand, years before, when he held the Second Provincial Council of Sutri in 1059 and deposed the uncanonically elected antipope Benedict X, who had been put into power by the powerful Tuscan Party.
In this year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-Five, we appear to be living in the footsteps and shadows of these two great men who dedicated their lives to the reform of the Church and the defense of the Papacy. By their prayers and example, may new generation of the Faithful, loyal to the same ideas, be raised up by the Holy Spirit to save the Church from the Lavender and godless Mafia which have seized the Vatican.
I encourage you to take 10 minutes or so and read the life of St Hildebrand (Gregory VII), and ask yourself if there is any group in the Church right now which exhorts its members to act as he and his allies did in the 11th century?
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