papal bull
Americannoun
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The timing coincides with the L’Aquila church’s celebration of the Feast of Forgiveness, which was created by Celestine in a papal bull.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2022
The papal bull, which informed the “doctrine of discovery,” was “used for centuries to expropriate Indigenous lands and facilitate their transfer to colonizing or dominating nations,” according to the United Nations.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2022
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
Whenever he entered a town the papal bull was carried before him upon a gilded cloth.
From Life of Luther with several introductory and concluding chapters from general church history by Gustav Just
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