Why the Church of the Swiss Guard rental instead of Catholics To Protect The Vatican?
Do they not trust their own people? Are they too afraid of religious fanatics?
- Why do Catholics pray to the Virgin Mary to protect them?
- Authorizes the Vatican for the Catholic Church to help people illegally enter the Usa ….?
- How can Catholics Still blindly trust the priests and church officials?
- Any Catholics who visited the Vatican What do you think?
- Why the Roman Catholic Church will not admit to failing to protect children from bad priests?
The Swiss guards were Catholic, is a requirement.
Who have watched the Vatican for something like 500 years-a regiment was sent from Switzerland, and many of them died in defense of the Vatican when the Pope was attacked. To honor them, the Pope instituted the duty officer of the Vatican.
Are celebrating the 500th anniversary this year …. you should be able to Google and get some neat stuff.
Because the Vatican is aware of the quality
I'm not sure you get the impression that the Swiss Guard are not "their own people."
All members of the Swiss Guard is and has always been Catholic.
One of the requirements of the Guard is to be Catholic men in good standing.
And yes, they really are Swiss.
All Swiss men are required to perform military service for life, and all healthy men in Switzerland are formally members of the army of that country.
As such, it has the largest number of Catholics eligible to draw the soldiers.
Guard are not just there for decoration or ceremony. They are not just Swiss soldiers, but soldiers specially trained in Switzerland. They are experts in martial arts, melee combat, any kind of conventional military weapons, and so on.
Swiss Guards are the practice of all Catholics who have served in the Swiss army.
They do not want children who visit the Vatican bothered on the front steps.
The Swiss guards heterosexuals are normal and do not constitute a threat to children who visit the Vatican.
Swiss Guards are Catholic. Is a strict requirement for becoming a Catholic is to be baptized.
Switzerland was the Guard. are predominantly Catholic
yes
It is a requirement to be Catholic to join the Swiss Guard. Therefore, they are all Catholics.
The papacy has possessed the body-the tutelage of Swiss Catholics in the fifteenth century. In 1505, at the behest of Cardinal Schinner Switzerland, the treaty was made by Julius II with the two cantons of Zurich and Lucerne, in accordance with which these cantons have constant supply of 250 men as a body guard to the Pope. Since that time there has always been on a body of Pope's Swiss guards.
Are responsible for protecting the sacred person of the Pope and the protection of the Apostolic Palaces, all exits from the palace of the city and the gateway to the papal apartments being entrusted to their care. We also have to assume their position at all pontifical functions in the papal chapel and all other religious functions inside and outside the Apostolic Palace (the latter is limited to San Pedro) will be attending the Pope.
your gay cause? =)
taking into account the hierarchy of the Catholic Church is a political organization, does it surprise you that they do not trust their own people? look at the Patriot Act in the United States. Governments have never trusted his own people.
No, it's not about lack of confidence. It is presented as a tribute to old Switzerland had to pay the Catholic Church after a war
And I think that was a tradition
Swiss Guards have had a centuries-long reputation for loyalty and honesty. Supposedly can not be bribed or otherwise influenced