Basilica of San Lorenzo fuori le mura, nave added in the XIII century by Pope Honorius III
He was a continuator of the policy of his powerful predecessor, Pope Innocent III. Just as he, Honorius attempted to maintain the position of the papacy as the most important authority in the Christian world, to which all secular rulers are subject (or at least should be subject). The papacy, as he understood it, was an authority in the political financial and legal sense and nothing of significance could have happened at any European court without the consent or participation of the pope. It was always he, who elevated kings and emperors to the throne and he who could overthrow them, thanks to the power granted to him by excommunication, meaning a tool of excluding one from the Christian world.
He was a continuator of the policy of his powerful predecessor, Pope Innocent III. Just as he, Honorius attempted to maintain the position of the papacy as the most important authority in the Christian world, to which all secular rulers are subject (or at least should be subject). The papacy, as he understood it, was an authority in the political financial and legal sense and nothing of significance could have happened at any European court without the consent or participation of the pope. It was always he, who elevated kings and emperors to the throne and he who could overthrow them, thanks to the power granted to him by excommunication, meaning a tool of excluding one from the Christian world.
