The Cross, the Tiara and the Sword
The Cross, the Tiara, and the Sword In these days when the world's public opinion is focused on the Vatican, the book by M. RICO, JC. LOSADA, and J. AYMAR, The Cross, the Tiara, and the Sword. An Unbraided [1] History of the Popes (Toledo, Ledoria Publishing, 2024)[available on Amazon], is particularly relevant. The unbraiding method aims to rigorously elucidate: 1. What, throughout history, Peter's successors have done out of fidelity to the gospel and in fulfillment of their apostolic mission (the cross) 2. The acts resulting from having been constituted pontiffs of the DOM (initials of Deo Optimo Maximo, a Latin phrase that in paganism meant "to the greatest and best God" with all the pomp and circumstance derived from this spiritual authority (the tiara or triple crown) 3. And, finally, their actions in the exercise of temporal power (the sword): that is, when, after the fall of the Roman Empire, the Supreme Pontiff saw himself as the only force capabl...