Breaking News: Knights Templar Not Guilty
The Vatican is releasing a collection of documents related to the Knights Templar. These almost perfect parchment reproductions are intended for serious medieval scholarship.
But they also have theological implications (for the Knights anyway):
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Knights Templar, the medieval Christian military order accused of heresy and sexual misconduct, will soon be partly rehabilitated when the Vatican publishes trial documents it had closely guarded for 700 years.
The most titillating part of the documents is the so-called Chinon Parchment, which contains phrases in which Pope Clement V absolves the Templars of charges of heresy, which had been the backbone of King Philip’s attempts to eliminate them.
Templars were burned at the stake for heresy by King Philip’s agents after they made confessions that most historians believe were given under duress.
I am glad the Bible is meant to be read, and that it tells me that the status of my soul is not beholden to any merely mortal man. Whether or not I am burned at the stake, the only one I ultimately have to please is the one who was pleased to give himself for me.
Soli Deo Gloria.
