Extracts from Father Terry's Verbal Conscience website (http://www.frterry.org),
Handouts 127, 128, 130
1. Philip the Fair versus Boniface VIII
King Philip the Fair defines his power (1297 A.D.)
The government of the temporality
of the kingdom belongs to the king alone and to no
one else and he does not have,
nor recognize, any superior. Nor does he intend to
submit himself to or be ruled
by anyone in any matter concerning things temporal in his
kingdom.
2. Boniface VIII at the consistory of 1302 A.D.
Our predecessors have deposed three
kings of France: the French have all that in their
chronicles and we have it in ours;
since the king of France has committed all the errors
by his ancestors, who were smitten,
and more, we shall have the sorry task of
deposing him like a naughty boy
unless he comes to his senses.
3. Accusation by Nogaret, lawyer of Philip the Fair, against Boniface VIII (1303 A.D.)
I claim that the individual in
question, surnamed Boniface, is not a pope. He has not entered by the door
and
must be considered a thief and
a robber. I claim that the aforesaid Boniface is a manifest heretic and
a
horrible simonist, such as there
has never been since the beginning of the world.. Finally, I claim that
the
aforesaid Boniface has committed
manifest crimes, of great enormity and infinite in number, and that he
is
incorrigible. It is the
duty of a General Council to judge him and condemn him.