I just heard that the Vatican is set to finally pardon the Knights Templar, almost exactly 700 years after the order was declared heretical by the church in what has long been believed to be basically an argument about money (Philip IV of France owed them a shedload of cash, being as they were the first world bankers). Allegedly documents ‘recently released’ from the Vatican archives have reinforced that the then Pope Clement V never actually believed they were heretics at all, and it was in fact purely about money and power.
I wonder if this classifies as the longest miscarriage of justice to actually be resolved?
October 12th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Those crazy Vatican archives. I bet there’s a lot of secrets in there
I think the Catholic church has a lot to do with money and power, or at least, it seems to.
October 12th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
That is about as fast as the catholic church moves. Maybe in a few hundred years they may change to English as their official language.
The problem with the Vatican is that they are too far removed from the rest of the world.
October 13th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Better late then never