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Wednesday, June 20, 2007
By One Vote . . .
Cardinal Pole, the last Roman-Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury, was beaten to Pope by one vote by Julius III in 1549 and by two votes by Paul IV in 1555. One wonders how history would have been different had he been elected?
Probably very different indeed. Pole was a humanist Catholic reformer who believed in justification by faith and wanted to seek reconciliation with the Protestants. He walked out of the Council of Trent and was later condemned for heresy.
Probably very different indeed. Pole was a humanist Catholic reformer who believed in justification by faith and wanted to seek reconciliation with the Protestants. He walked out of the Council of Trent and was later condemned for heresy.
ReplyDeleteThe 2013 US budget passed the Senate by one vote:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/Senate-Passes-Budget-for-First-Time-in-Four-Years-by-One-Vote-199681791.html