This week’s pope is defined by two words. Charlemagne and iconoclasm. And no, I’m not talking the Trump Twitter kind of iconoclasm.

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LINKS

Pope Adrian I (The Catholic Encyclopedia)
Pope Adrian I (Wikipedia)
Pope Adrian I (Flocknote's Popes in a Year)
Excerpt on Paul Afiarta in Thomas F.X. Noble's The Republic of St. Peter
The History of Charles the Great by J.I. Mombert (1888)
Duodecimum Saeculum by St. John Paul II (On the 1200th anniversary of the Second Council of Nicaea; 1987)

DUBIA LINKS

Full text of the five dubia – LINK
"Submitting dubia is a standard part of Church life. It’s not unreasonable to expect a clear answer." by Stephen Bullivant, The Catholic Herald – LINK
"On Pope Francis, High Horses, and Seeking a Simpler Faith" by Matthew Sewell, N.C. Register – LINK

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