by Br. Alexis Bugnolo
I strongly encourage Catholics to read the History of the Church. And to that end, I share here in PDF format, Drahomír Suchánek’s, “The First Papal Election according to the Decree In Nomine Domini”, which was published in the European Journal of Science and Technology, from February of this year.
This scholarly paper does not actually contain sources, but does cite them. And its approach is critical, asking the question whether this Papal Bull, In Nomine Domini, the Latin and English translation of which, I published, in 2020, can be found HERE, governed or was actually followed in the election of Bl. Urban II, Odo of Laghery, who was Cardinal Bishop of Velletri in 1088.
As you can see, from the discussion and conclusions of this article, that even contemporary scholarship admits that 1000 years ago, the elections of the Roman Pontiff follow Papal Laws. — Though the author of this article holds the opinions that this is not the case with all elections, his investigation of the election of Pope Urban II, at Terracina, in March of 1088, A. D., did find that the participants followed the terms of Nicholas II’s Bull, as far as can be ascertained from contemporary historical records.
CREDITS: The featured image is Zubarans’s “The Meeting of Bl. Pope Urban II with Saint Bruno”, a copy of which you will often see in the videos I make, since a cheap printed copy of this hangs in the Hermitage of the Holy Cross.
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