papal bull
Americannoun
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Pope Francis will preside over a ceremony in St. Peter’s Basilica for the formal reading of the papal bull, or official edict, that lays out the spiritual theme of hope for the year.
From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2024
By 1673, the year in which “City of Crows” is set, the papal bull officially recognizing the existence of witches had been stoking superstition in Europe for nearly 200 years.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2018
It depicts a legendary 6th-century Mass and was sent as a gift to Pope Paul III to thank him for his 1537 papal bull.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2018
The papal bull of 1520 excommunicating Luther from the Catholic Church, for example, accused him of promoting 41 heresies and “pestiferous errors.”
From National Geographic ● Oct. 27, 2017
This action traversed the doctrine laid down in the papal bull.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick
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