The War of Innocent III Against Til Cathari

As was explained in former articles, already in the time of the apostles many Jews and pagans became Christians in name only and thus clung to their old beliefs and practices, which they smuggled into the church, where they matured and eventually became known as Ebionism and Gnosticism. The Ebionists and the Gnostics were the heretics in the Christian church of the first five centuries. The Ebion and Gnostic teachers and their followers were wolves in sheep's clothing. Their presence in the...