Carolyn Brent (@EnglishandScottishHistory)

Although, in the English, fewer than 1000 words, Boniface VIII’s 1302 Unam Sanctum, while proclaiming Rome as the only way to God, succinctly sets forth the papacy’s case for civil persecution of those outside her pale and of the justification for the world’s physical conquest by her sons. These claims are contrary to the teachings found in the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments, where it is written that beside Christ there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved (Acts 4:8-12). As to going forth with the conquering sword against heretic within or pagan kingdom without, it is taught in the New Testament that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds...bringing every thought to the obedience of Christ (2 Corinthians 10:1-7). Below are excerpts from *Unam Sanctum*: ...We believe in her [the Roman church] firmly and we confess with simplicity that outside of her there is neither salvation nor the remission of sins... We venerate this Church as one...Therefore, of the one and only Church there is one body and one head, not two heads like a monster; that is, Christ and the Vicar of Christ, Peter and the successor of Peter, since the Lord speaking to Peter Himself said: ‘Feed my sheep‘, meaning, my sheep in general, not these, nor those in particular, whence we understand that He entrusted all to him...We are informed by the texts of the gospels that in this Church and in its power are two swords; namely, the spiritual and the temporal. For when the Apostles say: ‘Behold, here are two swords‘ that is to say, in the Church, since the Apostles were speaking, the Lord did not reply that there were too many, but sufficient. Certainly the one who denies that the temporal sword is in the power of Peter has not listened well to the word of the Lord commanding: ‘Put up thy sword into thy scabbard‘. Therefore, both are in the power of the Church, namely, the spiritual sword and the material. But indeed, the latter is to be exercised on behalf of the Church; and truly, the former is to be exercised by the Church. The former is of the priest; the latter is by the hand of kings and soldiers, but at the will and sufferance of the priest. However, one sword ought to be subordinated to the other and temporal authority, subjected to spiritual power. For since the Apostle said: ‘There is no power except from God and the things that are, are ordained of God‘, but they would not be ordained if one sword were not subordinated to the other and if the inferior one, as it were, were not led upwards by the other... For with truth as our witness, it belongs to spiritual power to establish the terrestrial power and to pass judgement if it has not been good. Thus is accomplished the prophecy of Jeremias concerning the Church and the ecclesiastical power: ‘Behold to-day I have placed you over nations, and over kingdoms‘ and the rest. Therefore, if the terrestrial power err, it will be judged by the spiritual power; but if a minor spiritual power err, it will be judged by a superior spiritual power; but if the highest power of all err, it can be judged only by God, and not by man, according to the testimony of the Apostle: ‘The spiritual man judgeth of all things and he himself is judged by no man‘. This authority, however, (though it has been given to man and is exercised by man), is not human but rather divine, granted to Peter by a divine word and reaffirmed to him (Peter) and his successors by the One Whom Peter confessed, the Lord saying to Peter himself, ‘Whatsoever you shall bind on earth, shall be bound also in Heaven‘ etc.. Therefore whoever resists this power thus ordained by God, resists the ordinance of God,...Furthermore, we declare, we proclaim, we define that it is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff. Source: https://www.papalencyclicals.net/bon08/b8unam.htm