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...
In November 1302 Boniface had issued an even more fundamental declaration concerning the position of the papacy in the Christian world, the bullUnam sanctam(“One Holy”), which has become the most widely known of all papal documents of the Middle Ages because of its allegedly radical and extre...