Decretal

When pontifical enactments take the form of responses they are called decretal epistles. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

In the first section of the decretal is a list of the canonical books of the Bible, as in the ❋ Joseph Cullen Ayer (1905)

This right of a married person to bonk on demand could take priority over other duties and was such serious business that, until a decretal from Pope Innocent III (1198-216), a man needed his wife's permission to go on a Crusade because without him home she might be led to commit adultery. ❋ Unknown (2009)

At length came one Gregory IX., an enemy to emperors and kings, who, by a decree, made the bonds of marriage indissoluble; and his decretal became the law of Europe. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This same decretal of Pope Gregory II., which permits bigamy in certain cases, denies conjugal rights forever to the boys and girls, whom their parents have devoted to the Church in their infancy. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Pope Honorius, the third of that name, forbade by a decretal from that time forward the method of choosing bishops by lot. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This decretal considers cases where there is no urgent need. ❋ Dino Bigongiari (1997)

The issue in decretal theology was not history and eternity but the orders of eternity. ❋ Libolt, Clayton (1982)

Moved by these or other reasons, John condemned the Franciscan propositions in 1323 with the decretal Cum inter nonnullos. ❋ Eco, Umberto (1980)

I sensed he must have been able to assume a far harsher expression when, in 1311, the Council of Vienne, with the decretal Exivi de paradiso, had deposed Franciscan superiors hostile to the Spirituals, but had charged the latter to live in peace within the order; and this champion of renunciation had not accepted that shrewd compromise and had fought for the institution of a separate order, based on principles of maximum strictness. ❋ Eco, Umberto (1980)

Thus Pope Innocent III in a decretal ascribes a certain ruling to “both the common law and the general cus - tom of the English church.” ❋ PETER STEIN (1968)

_On the contrary, _ A decretal of Pope Paschal [* Paschal II] says: "It is a new form of exaction when the clergy demand tithes from the clergy" [* Cap. Novum genus, de Decimis, etc.]. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

Reply Obj. 1: This decretal considers cases where there is no urgent need. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

For this reason others [* Innocent IV, on the above decretal] maintain that one may be dispensed even from a solemn vow of continency, for the sake of some common good or common need, as in the case of the example given above (Obj. 1), of a country being restored to peace through a certain marriage to be contracted. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

Wherefore unless the act of baptizing be expressed, either as we do, or as the Greeks do, the sacrament is not valid; according to the decretal of Alexander ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

From the Magister Sententiarum he had fallen upon the Capitularies of Charlemagne, and in his insatiable hunger for knowledge had devoured decretal after decretal: those of Theodore, Bishop of Hispalis, those of Bouchard, Bishop of Worms, those of Yves, Bishop of Chartres; then the decretal of Gratian, which came after Charlemagne’s Capitularies; then the collection of Gregory IX; then the epistle Super specula of Honorius III. ❋ Unknown (1917)

The decretal of Gregory X on this subject is called "Ubi periculum majus". ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

This decretal, which has become famous, was afterwards embodied in the ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The following are the chief points of the decretal: ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Innocent's exposition of his theory concerning the relation between the papacy and the empire was accepted by many princes, as is apparent from the sudden increase of Otto's adherents subsequent to the issue of the decretal. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Andrew: [Tell me] all of your decrets. Girl: [wots] a decret [lolz] ❋ COLD CHILLIN (2008)

[Boy], that's one [sexy] [Decretal]. ❋ Decretal (2018)

[Gotta] [decrete], [brb]. ❋ Fallalalla (2011)