..More 4 decades ago one of the worlds leading Encyclopedia based in UK approached me to write on Tanzania....My expertise was sisal, DSM Maps traditional markets....Certainly not Kilwa or SFX. Imagine my surprise the same authority nudged me to pay attention to what happened a couple of CENTURIES before SFX was conceived.
I do not claim to be a Professional Historian like some do,,,,but like FN I am hooked up to being a Goan and that means I cannot avoid history HERE GOES IT IS EVEN COLOUR CODED Most of the Popes starting from about 1184 were from the Italian Peninsula and somehow either knew each other and tried to outdo each other to tackle problems mundane or serious. Most were virulently anti Jewish *The Italian Pope Gregory IX * born around 1170 and was Pope from 1227 to his death in 1241. He issued the Decretales that instituted the Papal Inquisition because of the failures of the episcopal inquisitions established during the time of Pope Lucius III through his Papal Bull “Ad Abolendam” that was issued in 1184. Most of these Popes wanted to push for the dogma of the PAPAL SUPREMACY e Pope Honorius inherited the traditions of Pope Gregory VII and of his cousin Pope Innocent Several decades later Pope Innocent III zealously pushed their idea of Papal Supremacy In 1233 Gregory IX established the Papal Inquisition <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_Inquisition> to regularize the persecution of heresy <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heresy>.[7] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Gregory_IX#cite_note-Vizzier-7> The Papal Inquisition was intended to bring order to the haphazard episcopal inquisitions which had been established by Lucius III <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Lucius_III> in 1184. Gregory's aim was to bring order and legality to the process of dealing with heresy, since there had been tendencies by mobs of townspeople to burn alleged heretics without much of a trial. In 1231 Pope Gregory IX appointed a number of Papal Inquisitors (*Inquisitores haereticae pravitatis*), *mostly **Dominicans* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Order>* and * *Franciscans* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscan>*,* for the various regions of France, Italy and parts of Germany. The aim was to introduce due process and objective investigation into the beliefs of those accused to the often erratic and unjust persecution of heresy on the part of local ecclesiastical and secular jurisdictions Gregory was a remarkably skillful and learned lawyer. He ordered the preparation of a Nova Compilatio Decretalium 1234 and various supplements that laid the foundation for papal legal theory. Gregory observed that many of the clergy loved the trappings of wealth that included personal property, luxury and splendor. To counteract this he supported the mendicant orders such as the Dominicans ‘and the Franciscans. Both Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Dominic were his friends Gregory IX and Frederick came to a truce, but when Frederick defeated the Lombard League <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombard_League> in 1239, the possibility that he might dominate all of Italy, surrounding the Papal States <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_States>, became a very real threat. A new outbreak of hostilities led to a fresh excommunication of the emperor in 1239 and to a prolonged war. Gregory denounced Frederick II as a heretic and summoned a council at Rome to give point to his anathema <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathema>. Things turned really nasty Frederick responded by trying to capture or sink as many ships carrying prelates to the synod as he could. Eberhard II von Truchsees who was Prince/Arcbishop of Salzburg xat the Council of Regensburg declared that Gregory IX was "that man of perdition, whom they call Antichrist, who in his extravagant boasting says, 'I am God, I cannot err'." He argued that the Pope was the "little horn" of Daniel 7:8 The first Pope the Apostle Peter and Gatekeeper must have shaken his head in disgust , *Finally, inIn the **1234 Decretals* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decretals_of_Gregory_IX>*, he invested the doctrine of perpetua servitus iudaeorum – perpetual servitude of the Jews – with the force of canonical law. **According to this, the followers of the * *Talmud* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud>* would have to remain in a condition of political servitude until **Judgment Day* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_Day>*.* The doctrine then found its way into the doctrine of *servitus camerae imperialis*, or servitude immediately subject to the Emperor's authority, promulgated by Frederick II <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor>. The Jews were thus suppressed from having direct influence over the political process and the life of Christian <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity> states. *Pray where does SFX fit into the Inquisition ???*
