2.6 Second Constantinople: The Emperor and the Waffling Pope | Way of the Fathers with Mike Aquilina
Every council represents a crisis - often provoked by strong and eccentric personalities. But Constantinople II, in 553 AD, may have been the strangest of all. At the center of the drama were an imperial power couple, Justinian and Theodora, and a weak pope who vacillated between cowardice and duty.
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Extracts from the Acts www.newadvent.org/fathers/381...
Biography of Justinian www.newadvent.org/cathen/0857...
Biography of Pope Vigilius www.newadvent.org/cathen/1542...
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I don`t know much about these matters, but it seems a mighty miracle the Great Schism did not happen then. What differences saved us here that failed at the Great Schism?
Vigilius upheld true Christian doctrine upon becoming Pope because the Holy Spirit protects the papacy from doctrinal error.