Talk:Pope Valentine

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Rumors

Who is Louis-Marie DeCormenin, and how reliable is he? In a 1857 tome he says "...rumours declared that Valentine and Eugenius were involved in an illicit relationship. Forty-nine years later, Horace K. Mann says, "With the death of Eugenius, the Roman clergy, nobility and people all acclaimed Valentine as being the most worthy to occupy the Apostolic See." ---If someone rumored to be in an illicit relationship with the pope is acclaimed as the most worthy successor, what does that say about the other candidates? Mannanan51 (talk) 23:17, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

Louis-Marie DeCormenin was a staunch critic of the Papacy and the Catholic Church. His work on the History of the Popes contains much that is critical of the individual popes, and relates many stories about individual popes that are salacious in nature. Whether the facts DeCormenin quotes are true or not, they are sourced from original sources, which he cites, and he is a useful counterpoint to the magisterial work of Horace K. Mann, who was a staunch Catholic, and whose work deliberately excluded such material. For an encyclopaedic article, it is appropriate to include material from both approaches, so long as such material is identified as such. Oatley2112 (talk) 07:12, 24 November 2019 (UTC)