The Downfall of Christendom

Part Two: Two Towers of Cesaro-Papism

With the accession of Boniface VIII to the Papacy a new era in Church History will begin.  While this Wolf cannot confirm that this man was a Satanic Pederast, he strongly suspects it.  Boniface will go where no Pontiff has gone before, with the Bull Unam Sanctam, which ends with these seminal words:  "Furthermore, we declare, we proclaim, we define that it is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff."  Now, this Wolf venerates every word of Unam Sanctam because, though written by a Satanic Pederast to magnify the temporal power of the Papacy, it is nevertheless the work of the Holy Ghost also, and this by the Mystery of God and the Mystery of Iniquity, because the Church is Divinely Founded and Chartered, and the Chair of Peter cannot fail.  Every theological reference in Unam Sanctam betrays its origin- the reference to Noah's Ark, the curious use of Psalm 21, the most telling "Blessed Dionysius"- somehow, this Wolf does not think this a reference to Dionysius the Areopagite, but rather the "God of Wine and Feasting"- and yet all is woven majestically as a true portrayal of the sovereign authority of Christ's Church, even as the author wishes to twist that authority to impose tyranny.  The Roman Pontiff is the source and summit of all authority on earth insofar as he is united to the Divine Majesty in spirit and truth, and this, the Satanic Pederasts will do, because they must keep up appearances.  
Unlike the dimwitted Pope Frantic and his Clueless Cardinals, Pope Boniface realizes that the true source of the respect he is accorded by princes and people is his adherence to Apostolic Tradition.  Likewise his successors until the Council of Trent.  No matter how vile their private lives, they know it is absolutely essential to keep up appearances, and so the Holy Ghost will continue to use them to further the Apostolic Mandate of Our Lord Jesus Christ, outside of which no man, even if duly ordained, may lawfully and fruitfully administer the sacraments of Holy Mother Church.  And those who dare administer sacraments apart from an Apostolic Mandate feed their flocks with Wormwood, even though it be the Body of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and those who partake in schismatic rites, as says St Paul, "eateth and drinketh judgment to himself."
Having successfully ousted the last great attempt by Almighty God to reform the papacy in the person of St Celestine V, Pope Boniface will proceed to solidify the captured papacy from all temporal threats, while also using it as a means to build a world empire.  However, concord among evildoers is rare, and competing and dissenting factions soon emerged between the powers in Genoa, Venice, and Pisa.  These had been simmering long before Boniface, though they had been united in their opposition to Franciscan reforms of the 13th century.  But with the Franciscans now tamed under a modified rule, they could turn their attention outward.  The Venetian Marco Polo had already pioneered Jewish relations with the Far East, and now two schools emerged among the merchants.  One wanted to do business along the Silk Road by collaborating with the newly organized Russian Czars- more on whom shortly- while the other wanted to infiltrate and magnify the Ottomans.  The disputes would fester until erupting in the Great Papal Schism which lasted from 1378 until 1417, almost ending in disaster for the Jews.
But more earthly matters also needed tending to.  The unpredicted rise of Genghis Khan and his Mongol Hordes had tossed a vast snafu into plans for a "global trade network" using the Muslims as a conduit for trade with the Far East.  And with the fall of the "County of Tripoli" in 1289, both the Silk Road and the more southerly route across the Arabian Peninsula were now blocked, and another route to the Orient was going to have to be devised.  Meanwhile, the more immediate problem was the upstart Kingdom of Aragon, which had recently conquered Sicily and was threatening to project power across the Mediterranean and quash the martine power of Venice. The Germans had been tamed, but only at the expense of giving political power to France.  Maintaining a balance of power was going to be most precarious.  And adding to the complications was the continuing decay of Byzantium, which threatened to destabilize the entire banking system by throwing the Mighty Bezant into arrears.
All of that was taken into account with the proclamation of Unam Sanctam.  It assured the Byzantine Schism would only be exacerbated.  It assured that Philip the Fair would be a most terrible enemy of the Papacy by nullifying any say he had in the investiture of French Bishops.  But even more importantly, like the War of Northern Aggression that would be fought centuries later, it reduced the bishops to mere suffregens and vassals of the papacy.  For centuries, bishops had exercised their authority in liturgical matters, decreed canons, deposed heretics, and excommunicated the intransigent.  Now, all these would be reserved to the Holy Seat.  No longer would the Pope be "First Among Equals".  Rather, the Bishops would rather simply represent him in the administration of their dioceses as extensions of his authority.  The Pope was now free to take on the role of an Oriental Despot.  This shift would shake Christendom to its very foundations, as subsequent centuries bore witness to, but let us not get ahead of the story.
Meanwhile, some thousands of miles to the East, another center of Cesaro-Papism was coalescing.  The Grand Duchy of Moscow, the Kingdom of Vladimir, and the Lands of Kiev had fused to form Rus, which was ruled by the Czars.  These Monarchs saw themselves heads of both Church and State, and the Orthodox Church quickly became their vassal.  When Constantinople finally fell to the Ottomans in 1453, marking the essential destruction of Byzantium, Moscow would inherit the status of being the center of Orthodoxy, and the Greek Rites were adapted to the Slavic Culture, and Slavic tastes.  Both Czars and Orthodox now relished their independence from the Roman Primacy, which they- sometimes correctly- saw as a center of corruption and theological confusion.  Heaven wept as the Inheritance of the Apostle John had been cloven from the Administration of St Peter, a gaping wound in Holy Mother Church that Our Lady had come down from Heaven to heal at Fatima.
The stage had been set for the Apocalypse, and the Prophet foretold by St John: "And I beheld, and heard the voice of one eagle flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice: Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth..."  (Namely, St Vincent Ferrer.)  (The previous verses of the Apocalypse, citing the Star Wormwood and "The Third Part of the Sun being smitten" are references to the schismatic Orthodox and the schismatic Antipopes of the Great Western Schism, respectively.)
When the drama of the Great Western Schism was ended and the various schools of the Jewish Banksters and merchants reconciled- even Pisa had at one point elected its own "Pope"!- they decided on a far reaching and ambitious plan.  A Sea Route would be charted to the Far East and its valuable spices and narcotics.  But since the Red Sea had become a Muslim Lake, that meant either sailing around Africa- was that even possible?- or sailing into the West, having only the legends of ancient mariners for guidance.  But that would also require shifting the center of operations from the Italian Peninsula to the Iberian Peninsula.

And so the vast project to build the Spanish Empire was started.  First, the kingdom of Aragon was infiltrated.  Next, it was united with the Kingdom of Castile.  In Isabella of Spain, the Jews found their hero.  She galvanized the political landscape, ridded the Peninsula of the Muslims by conquering Granada, and generously funded a platoon of "Explorers" and "Conquistadors".  She set up the Spanish Inquisition, allegedly to rid the kingdom of heretics but in actuality to ferret out those who were critical of Spanish and Portuguese collusion with Jewish bankers in the quest to build a "global empire".  In the relatively short span of a century and a half, Spain went from being a footnote in Christendom to fielding an empire on which the sun never set.  Its zenith was the epic battle of Lepanto in 1571, but, just  17 short years later, with the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, its doom was sealed.  But, again, let us not get ahead of the story.

Back in Rome, the Jewish Popes became increasingly materialistic and sordid.  This was the rise of the Renaissance, which some rightly call the Relapse into Paganism.  This was the time when all the Vatican Institutions, from the castrati in the Sistine Chapel choir, to the riotous "Carnivals" in Milan, to the College of Cardinals, were born.  This was the time when all the great Vatican buildings had their foundations laid, with funds from the notorious "indulgences" being peddled about Christendom.  This was also the time of the most notorious popes who had mistresses and sodomitical lovers.  

Damage control was going to become necessary, and how that was machinated was the Fait Accompli of the Millennium.  Stay Tuned.