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
Rivers said that to confront Christian nationalism honestly, churches and other houses of worship need to focus on a papal bull issued by Pope Alexander VI in 1493 known as the Doctrine of Discovery.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2022
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
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
They laughed at excommunication, or only marked the fulmination of a papal bull by some fresh act of oppression on the clergy subject to their authority.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
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