Sentence examples for papal decree from inspiring English sources

An important papal decree was finally promulgated in early August.

The papal decree applied to Jews in Rome.

An apostolic constitution is the highest form of papal decree.

This custom began with the papal decree of 1163 that forbade the clergy to shed blood.

In the autocratic world of Vatican governance, all that is needed is a papal decree.

At issue was a papal decree that had administratively merged the observant and the nonobservant houses of the order.

Likewise, Newman gave what were widely considered "minimalist" interpretations of papal decrees and even the First Vatican Council's declaration of papal infallibility.

She quotes any number of documents and papal decrees verbatim at me, hands me copies, insisting I doublecheck everything she says.

To this collection in the next 400 years were added the decretals (papal decrees on points of law) produced in the reigns of Gregory IX (1234), Boniface VIII (1298), and John XXII (1317) and two collections known as Extravagantes (1500).

A long list of simmering issues -- about women's roles, liturgical language and practice, annulments and remarriage, birth control and abortion, religious education, homosexuality, adherence to papal decrees and so on -- have left many Catholics of all theological persuasions muttering about a gap between what church leaders say and how the church operates.

The archives contain records of all Papal decrees, encyclicals and Vatican diplomatic correspondence.