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This is an incomplete list of papal bulls, listed by the year in which each was issued. The decrees of some papal bulls were often tied to the circumstances of time and place, and may have been adjusted, attenuated, or abrogated by subsequent popes as situations changed.
The Papal Bull of indulgence gave no sanction whatever to this proposition. It was a vague scholastic opinion, rejected by the Sorbonne in 1482, and again in 1518, and certainly not a doctrine of the church, which was thus improperly put forward as dogmatic truth.
A crusade bull or crusading bull (Latin: bulla cruciata) was a papal bull that granted privileges, including indulgences, to those who took part in the Crusades against infidels. [1] [2] A bull is an official document issued by a pope and sealed with a leaden bulla. All crusade bulls were written in Latin.
This removed from the list of indulgenced prayers and good works, now called the Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, [8] many prayers for which various religious institutes, confraternities and similar groups had succeeded in the course of centuries in obtaining grants of indulgences, but which could not be classified as among "the most important".
Popularly, the name is used for any papal document that contains a metal seal. Today, the bull is the only written communication in which the pope will refer to himself as "Episcopus Servus Servorum Dei" ("Bishop, Servant of the Servants of God"). [3] While papal bulls always used to bear a metal seal, they now do so only on the most solemn ...
In 1514 Albert suggested to Pope Leo X that a special indulgence be announced in his three dioceses as well as in his native diocese of Brandenburg and that half of the income should be used for the construction of the new St. Peter's Basilica and half for Albert's own cash register. The papal bull was issued on 31 March 1515. [4]
The Catholic Church had technically banned the practice of selling indulgences as long ago as 1567. As the Times points out, a monetary donation wouldn't go amiss toward earning an indulgence. It ...
Thomas W. Smith noted that it "has long been considered the pinnacle of twelfth-century papal letters." [12] Penny J. Cole described Audita tremendi as "perhaps the most emotive of all papal bulls", [13] while Jonathan Phillips called it "the most powerful and emotive crusade bull of all". [8]