November 18, 2006

Pope Boniface VIII Issues Unam Sanctam

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Historians consider the Papal bull Unam sanctam, The One Holy, to be one of the most extreme statements of Papal spiritual supremacy ever made. It proclaimed that there is no salvation outside of the Church and arose from the Pope's conflict with Philip the Fair of France, in which each attempted to prevent the other from receiving money from taxes, highlighting the conflict between temporal and spiritual authority in the Middle Ages. What did Philip do in response to the bull?
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