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unusual facts about Pontifical Household



Joachim of Fiore

In 2009 Father Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher to the Pontifical Household, gave a lecture to Pope Benedict XVI and the papal household, restating the Roman Catholic Church's view that Gioacchino da Fiore was a heretic.


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Papal Gentlemen

From the days of Pope Leo I (440–461) the pontifical household had included papal chamberlains who were personal attendants on the Pope in his private apartments.

Theologian of the Pontifical Household

Wojciech Giertych, a Polish Dominican former student of and professor of theology at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum, who was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI in 2005 to replace the Swiss Cardinal Georges Cottier, now Theologian Emeritus of the Pontifical Household.