Pope Clement Cleared Templars of All Heresies in Secret Vatican Document

October 13th, 2007

What other “misplaced” documents are entombed in that library? And why release this information now? Wow, what a mind boggler…

Lots of people have made careers out of Templar lore, it will be interesting to see what the pros think about this incredible revelation.

This is a worthless, reckless and wildass guess on my part, but I’d say that this represents just a drop in the bucket, and that the Church has probably “misplaced” entire stacks of documents related to the rolling up of the Templars.

While it might seem easy to laugh off the Church as some kind of creaking anachronism, that thing is the longest lived crime syndicate in the world; a cryptocracy that spans millennia. The treachery and atrocities that we commonly ascribe to modern states only seem remarkable until you look at what the Church has been up to since the dawn of dirt. All I’m saying is that we can learn a lot about how fascists behave today by keeping one eye on what most people have forgotten, or never knew, about the Catholic Church.

As just one example, I like John Ralston Saul’s treatment of the Jesuit Order in Voltaire’s Bastards. And, of course, no self respecting tinfoil site could mention the Catholic Church and not mention Vatican Assassins.

So, what do you make of this revelation about the Templars?

Via: Reuters:

The Knights Templar, the medieval Christian military order accused of heresy and sexual misconduct, will soon be partly rehabilitated when the Vatican publishes trial documents it had closely guarded for 700 years.

A reproduction of the minutes of trials against the Templars, “‘Processus Contra Templarios — Papal Inquiry into the Trial of the Templars'” is a massive work and much more than a book — with a 5,900 euros ($8,333) price tag.

“This is a milestone because it is the first time that these documents are being released by the Vatican, which gives a stamp of authority to the entire project,” said Professor Barbara Frale, a medievalist at the Vatican’s Secret Archives.

“Nothing before this offered scholars original documents of the trials of the Templars,” she told Reuters in a telephone interview ahead of the official presentation of the work on October 25.

The epic comes in a soft leather case that includes a large-format book including scholarly commentary, reproductions of original parchments in Latin, and — to tantalize Templar buffs — replicas of the wax seals used by 14th-century inquisitors.

Reuters was given an advance preview of the work, of which only 799 numbered copies have been made.

One parchment measuring about half a meter wide by some two meters long is so detailed that it includes reproductions of stains and imperfections seen on the originals.

Pope Benedict will be given the first set of the work, published by the Vatican Secret Archives in collaboration with Italy’s Scrinium cultural foundation, which acted as curator and will have exclusive world distribution rights.

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The Templars went into decline after Muslims re-conquered the Holy Land at the end of the 13th century and were accused of heresy by King Philip IV of France, their foremost persecutor. Their alleged offences included denying Christ and secretly worshipping idols.

The most titillating part of the documents is the so-called Chinon Parchment, which contains phrases in which Pope Clement V absolves the Templars of charges of heresy, which had been the backbone of King Philip’s attempts to eliminate them.

Templars were burned at the stake for heresy by King Philip’s agents after they made confessions that most historians believe were given under duress.

The parchment, also known as the Chinon Chart, was “misplaced” in the Vatican archives until 2001, when Frale stumbled across it.

“The parchment was catalogued incorrectly at some point in history. At first I couldn’t believe my eyes. I was incredulous,” she said.

“This was the document that a lot of historians were looking for,” the 37-year-old scholar said.

Philip was heavily indebted to the Templars, who had helped him finance his wars, and getting rid of them was a convenient way of cancelling his debts, some historians say.

Frale said Pope Clement was convinced that while the Templars had committed some grave sins, they were not heretics.

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7 Responses to “Pope Clement Cleared Templars of All Heresies in Secret Vatican Document”

  1. Bilda Betterberger says:
    October 13, 2007 at 3:10 am

    Remember Jacques De Molay!

  2. djc says:
    October 13, 2007 at 8:08 am

    Hi Kevin

    Check out the following – http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/Papacy1.html

    A bloodthirsty debauched lot to say the least.

  3. cryingfreeman says:
    October 13, 2007 at 10:35 am

    The Catholic monolith is the most evil institution known to man – and that takes some doing. Nothing new I read about it shocks me. I have no doubt that its Pope is the biblical “beast” and that its religion the fake church known as “Babylon”. In time, I expect its role in the NWO to unfold.

  4. Cloud says:
    October 13, 2007 at 3:27 pm

    @cryingfreeman:

    And are the people who wrote and compiled the Bible somehow disconnected from the ubiquitous scam of shamanism? Where do you draw the line between Prophet and pretender?

    It isn’t wise to exchange one kool-aid for another.

  5. prov6yahoo says:
    October 13, 2007 at 5:31 pm

    Hey Kevin,
    One thought: the church is simply cashing in on all the DaVinci Code mania – making some easy big bucks while they can. Maybe to help payoff all the judgements against their pederast priests.

  6. Kevin says:
    October 14, 2007 at 12:33 am

    @prov6yahoo,

    I doubt that this publication has much to do with revenue, since there are only 799 copies being made available to top universities and researchers. The Church takes in billions of dollars per year (nobody on the outside actually knows how many billions), but there are a few clues. It’s a vast wealth hoarding machine. In the scheme of things, the revenues generated from this Templar publication would barely justify an entry in the Vatican’s spreadsheet.

    From The Vatican Billions by Avro Manhattan:

    Jesus, the founder of Christianity, was the poorest of the poor. Roman Catholicism, which claims to be His church, is the richest of the rich, the wealthiest institution on earth.

    How come, that such an institution, ruling in the name of this same itinerant preacher, whose want was such that he had not even a pillow upon which to rest his head, is now so top-heavy with riches that she can rival – indeed, that she can put to shame – the combined might of the most redoubtable financial trusts, of the most potent industrial super-giants, and of the most prosperous global corporation of the world?

    It is a question that has echoed along the somber corridors of history during almost 2,000 years; a question that has puzzled, bewildered and angered in turn untold multitudes from the first centuries to our days.

    The startling contradiction of the tremendous riches of the Roman Catholic Church with the direct teaching of Christ concerning their unambiguous rejection, is too glaring to be by-passed, tolerated or ignored by even the most indifferent of believers. In the past, indeed, some of the most virulent fulminations against such mammonic accumulation came from individuals whose zeal and religious fervor were second to none.Their denunciations of the wealth, pomp, luxury and worldly habits of abbots, bishops, cardinals and popes can still be heard thundering with unabated clamor at the opening of almost any page of the chequered annals of western history.

    But, while it was to their credit that such men had the honesty to denounce the very church to which they had dedicated their lives, it is also to the latter’s discredit that she took no heed of the voices of anguish and anger of those of her sons who had taken the teaching of the Gospel to the letter and therefore were eager that the Roman Catholic system, which claimed to be the true bride of Christ, be as poor as one she called master. When she did not silence them, she ignored them or, at the most, considered them utterances of religious innocents, to be tolerated as long as her revenue was not made to suffer.

    Whenever that happened the Vatican did not hesitate to resort of the most prompt and drastic coercion to silence anyone capable of setting in motion forces, within or outside her, likely to divest her of her wealth.

    The employment of suppressive measures went from the purely spiritual to physical ones; the ecclesiastical and lay machineries were used according to the degree and seriousness of the threat, and this to such an extent that in due course they became so integrated as to operate at all levels, wherever the two partners deemed themselves imperiled.

    The result was that finally the religious exertion of Roman Church became so intermingled with her monetary interests as to identify the former with the latter, so that very often one could see a bishop or a pope fulminate excommunication and anathema against individuals, guilds, cities, princes and kings, seemingly to preserve and defend the spiritual prerogatives of the Church, when in reality they did so exclusively to preserve, defend or expand the territorial, financial or even commercial benefits of a Church determined to retain, and indeed to add to, the wealth it already enjoyed.

    This policy was not confined only to come critical or peculiar period of Catholic history. It became a permanent characteristic throughout almost two millennia. This feature, besides causing immense sorrow to the most fervent of her adherents, became the spring of countless disputes, not only with the principalities of this world, whom she challenged with her incessant quest for yet more temporal tributes, but equally with vast sections of Christendom itself.

  7. cryingfreeman says:
    October 14, 2007 at 11:16 am

    @ Cloud: That’s right, throw out the baby with the bathwater. As for me, I’ve never been persuaded by the theory of evolution or “big bang”, etc. So religion is a question of faith. Okay. So is belief in anti-theistic theories. Seriously. There simply is no compelling explanation for origins of the basic cell within Darwinism; all evidence I have seen thus far points to intelligent design. You call my position Kool Aid (whatever that is – I’m not an American so I’m at a bit of a loss there). But if mine is Kool Aid to you, ditto yours to me.

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