Vatican secret archives - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 31 Oct 2019 04:42:23 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Vatican secret archives - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Vatican's Secret Archives no longer officially secret https://cathnews.co.nz/2019/10/31/vatican-secret-archives/ Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:55:01 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=122601 The Vatican Secret Archives, containing millions of documents spanning 12 centuries, are no longer officially "secret". Pope Francis has renamed the priceless archives, which include letters concerning King Henry VIII's request to divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn, which led to the English church breaking away from Rome in 1534. They also hold Read more

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The Vatican Secret Archives, containing millions of documents spanning 12 centuries, are no longer officially "secret".

Pope Francis has renamed the priceless archives, which include letters concerning King Henry VIII's request to divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn, which led to the English church breaking away from Rome in 1534.

They also hold the original acts of the 1633 trial of the astronomer Galileo by the Roman Inquisition, which condemned him as a heretic for teaching that the Earth revolves around the sun. Read more

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