CHT | Deep Dive #10 - Unam Sanctam: Power and Its Corrupting Nature

1302 AD.

Pope Boniface VIII continues to develop and clarify the sweeping reforms (largely promulgated by his great-uncle, Pope Gregory IX) of the temporal power of the Roman church by issuing his papal bull: Unam Sanctam. "The One Holy [Church]"

Tonight we will go through the text and discuss its situation in the late 13th/early 14th century.

A translation can be found at this link:
https://www.papalencyclicals.net/bon08/b8unam.htm