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What Dante Alighieri Thinks of Retired Popes

The last pope to resign before Benedict XVI was Celestine V, five months after his election, in 1294.

Shortly after, Dante Alighieri’s (+1321) Divine Comedy puts Celestine V, without mentioning his name, in an anti-chamber of hell.

Dante refers to him as “he who made for cowardice, the great refusal.”

He lives head-down in a hole, unable to see what is happening outside. His feet burn for ever in oil.

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EC866
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The last pope who resign before Benedict XVI was pope Gregory XII (in 1415). Why are you lieing like this?
Ultraviolet
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"Pope benedict xvi only partially retired and attempted to retain..." You've repeated that lie before @Thors Catholic Hammer There is no such thing as a "partial" retirement from the Papacy in Canon Law. And he didn't just retire, he resigned.
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The Church took a beautiful revenge on Dante who put Celestine V in hell: the Church, on the contrary, canonized him. As Pius XI says, Dante did beautiful things, but he had the mistake of somewhat despising the Papacy.
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Celestine V was a saint, proclaimed by Clement V, 1313. I think Dante wrote his work before that proclamation. In any case, Bonifacio did not teach any heresy. It is not the same as today.
Thors Catholic Hammer
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Of course a pope can retire from office.
The current big problem with the church is that Pope benedict xvi only partially retired and attempted to retain aspects of the papal office.
That is simply not possible.
A half resignation from the papacy is a non resignation.
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So, you are placing B-XVI in hell, right? GOOOOOOOD!! You can't compare the curcumstances, when the Church held, not the power (Frederick II, his father, the Avignon exile, etc., demonstrate it), but the absolute AUTHORITY, and now, when it is universally persecuted. You have some nerve, doing this, I mean, the meassure with which you judge will be applied to you: don't talk, if you don't know the …More
So, you are placing B-XVI in hell, right? GOOOOOOOD!! You can't compare the curcumstances, when the Church held, not the power (Frederick II, his father, the Avignon exile, etc., demonstrate it), but the absolute AUTHORITY, and now, when it is universally persecuted. You have some nerve, doing this, I mean, the meassure with which you judge will be applied to you: don't talk, if you don't know the circumstances... and everything sugests it was about an existential threat to the Church. Please, wake up!!!
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