Quia quorundam

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With the papal bull Quia quorundam of November 10, 1324 Pope John XXII answered . on the allegations of the Roman-German King Ludwig of Bavaria and accused him of being a heretic .

Poverty struggle

Ludwig the Bavarian had sided with the Franciscans in the poverty struggle and defended their ideal of poverty. With this bull the Pope takes up the dispute again and recommends that opponents of his theory be taught by the universities .

Previous documents

At the beginning, John XXII referred. on his letters Ad conditorem canonum (December 8, 1322) and Cum inter nonnullos (November 12, 1323) that both documents were after extensive consultations with the cardinals , the archbishops and bishops , the prelates of the Church , with scholars of theology and professors in law . But now there are certain groups who are interested in falsifying the truth .

obedience

The Pope protested against the accusation of disregarding statements made by his predecessors that he was of the opinion that it was in the right spirit of the Gospel to re-examine the truth and align it with the results. John XXII. pleaded for the law of theological science, but placed the primacy and authority of the Pope over it. The decision-making power, he explained, was in the “power of the keys” of the Pope and not in the hands of the priests. He followed up on the appointment of the substitute office by Christ to Simon Peter and demanded obedience from the clergy .

Property and possession

The Pope also quotes the rules of the order and comes to the conclusion that in the rules of the order of the Franciscans, which were adopted by his predecessors Honorius III. (1216-1227), Gregory IX. (1227–1241), Innocent IV (1243–1254), Alexander IV. (1254–1261) and Nicholas IV. (1288–1292) had been drawn up and approved, the following sentence stands: “These rules correspond to the Gospel… The Brothers should live in obedience, without property and in chastity ”.

That led to John XXII. to the conclusion that one could not conclude from this that " Christ and the apostles had nothing". In the remainder of this, the Pope also goes into details of the regulatory provisions that had been approved by his predecessors mentioned above. Ultimately, however, he keeps coming back to his thesis that it is untrue to claim that Christ and the apostles would have been without property and that is why the Franciscans, according to the rules of evangelical poverty, should not have any property either.

Against the ringleaders

John XXII. cited with this new bull the superiors of the order Michael of Cesena , Wilhelm of Ockham and Bonagratia of Bergamo to Avignon to go to court with them . However, they evaded this court and fled to King Ludwig, who was staying in Pisa . The majority of the Franciscans followed the Pope's instructions, while the Spirituals split up into different groups a few years later.

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