Hi Sean, Another good catch!! Keep this up and you could end up as my un-paid proof reader :)) Caution, it's a time consuming job...
I don't resend messages except for extra special reasons because I otherwise then get emails from people informing me I'm sending them duplicates.. Thanks so very much for passing on selected articles to the LA station. Please be sure to tell them about Holy Postage. Blessings, sue At 01:18 PM 3.23.2009, you wrote: >Sue - you might want to send this out again with >a fix in the second sentence regarding Pope Pius >VII's predecessor. It was NOT Pope Pius VII, it >was Pius VI. Yes, an extra "I" got into the mix >so it looks like Pius VII succeeded himself! >Sean > >In a message dated 3/23/2009 6:19:38 A.M. >Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > > >Saturday, March 21, 2009 > > > ><http://irishcatholichumanist.blogspot.com/2009/03/pope-who-defied-napoleon.html>The > >Pope who Defied Napoleon > > > ><http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vjlTTnUPlbc/ScUrRbHlLTI/AAAAAAAAA4Y/RhCYagerIh0/s1600-h/Jacques-Louis_David_018%5B1%5D.jpg> >http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vjlTTnUPlbc/ScUrRbHlLTI/AAAAAAAAA4Y/R ><http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vjlTTnUPlbc/ScUrRbHlLTI/AAAAAAAAA4Y/RhCYagerIh0/s1600-h/Jacques-Louis_David_018%5B1%5D.jpg> > > > > >Today in 1800 marks the day that Pope Pius VII >(1800-1823) was crowned. Cardinal Luigi Barnaba >Chiaramonte (1740-1823) came to the papal throne >in exile, his predecessor Pope Pius VII having >forcibly carried to France by Napoleon >Bonaparte. The papal election had to be held in >Austrian territory and a paper-mache crown was >used for the coronation. The Church was still >trying to recover from the effects of the French >Revolution, and Cardinal Imola was open to >dealing with the new French government under Bonaparte. > >Napoleon was interested in straightening out >Church-State relations in France not because he >was a good Catholic, but because he wanted the >support of a populace that was still strongly >Catholic. In 1801 France and the Holy See signed >a concordat that governed relations between the >two for nearly a century. But Napoleon’s >relationship with Pius was never easy. In 1804, >Napoleon had the Pope crown him Emperor of the >French, but at the last minute he snatched the >crown away to let the pontiff know who was really in charge. > >Still, Pius was not the puppet Napoleon wanted. >In 1807, he tried to force Pius to join a league >of Italian rulers (the pope was ruler of the >Papal States at the time), but Pius refused to >break his neutrality. When he demanded more >French cardinals appointed, the pontiff again >refused. In 1809, Napoleon annexed the Papal >States and Pius excommunicated “all the >robbers of Peter’s Patrimony†(but none of >them by name). For five years Pius was a >prisoner of the Emperor in France. Pius went on >living simply in captivity, like the monk he had >been before he was pope, saying his office, >washing hie own clothes, and refusing to invest any French bishops. > >In 1814, when Napoleon’s political situation >worsened, he sent Pius back to Rome, where he >was greeted as a hero. 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