He treated decretals as laws of God, and all who disobeyed them as blasphemers.
The fact, that there were no papal decretals prior to Constantine, seemed to imply, at least to the sceptically minded, that papal authority had really begun at the time of Constantine and not at the time of St. Peter.
If with one hand the Reformation threw down the dusty decretals of Rome, with the other it rejected the assumptions of the mystics, and established, on the ground it had won, the living and unchangeable Word of God.
The most that can now be done by the devout for the Decretals is "to palliate the guilt of their forger," whose name, like that of the Greek Macpherson, is unknown.
And then Hommenay drank to the Decretals and their very good health.
The Institutes took excellent care of Brahmans and cows, as the Decretals did of the Pope and the clergy, and the earliest Popes had about as much hand in the Decretals as Vishnu had in his Institutes.
The False Decretals naturally assert the supremacy of the Bishop of Rome.
The binding authority of the decretals of the bishop of Rome is also asserted, and this, too, becomes characteristic of the jurisprudence of the Western Church.
The canonist Henry of Susa (Hostiensis + 1271), went so far as to say that "whoever contradicted or refused to accept the decretals of the Popes was a heretic.
Canon 27, inserted in the Decretalsof Gregory IX, lib.
Decretals of this nature, however absurd they may seem, were at least serviceable in the reforms they effected.
Homenas then said to us: 'Tis enjoined us by our holy decretals to visit churches first and taverns after.
The hour of midday is past, and after it our sacreddecretals forbid us to sing mass, I mean your high and lawful mass.
A continuation of the miracles caused by the decretals Chapter 4.
Rarely fallen in again, egad, said Epistemon, returning from stool; I see he will hook his decretals in, though by the head and shoulders.
At Cahusac, said Gymnast, a match being made by the lords of Estissac and Viscount Lausun to shoot at a mark, Perotou had taken to pieces a set of decretals and set one of the leaves for the white to shoot at.
How Homenas, Bishop of Papimany, showed us the Uranopet decretals Chapter 4.
In like manner the sacreddecretals which you see were written with the hand of an angel of the cherubim kind.
It is true that at present there are hardly any, though meanly instructed in these matters, who do not acknowledge that these decretals are false.
Among the documents that at the present time are generally admitted to be forgeries, the Donation of Constantine and the Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals are of primary importance.
The Pseudo-Isidorian decretals ascribed this demand to the popes of the 4th and 5th centuries.
Ebo himself had never attempted to make good the claims which the Pseudo-Isidorian decretals would have afforded him.
Here too the Isidorian decretals played a prominent part.
The Collection of Decretals of the Pseudo-Isidore.
The non-genuine decretals are for the most part not altogether forgeries, but are rather based upon the literature of theology and canon law then existing, amplified or altered, and wrought up to serve the purposes of the compiler.
The third part, again, contains decretals of Sylvester, the successor of Melchiades, down to Gregory II.
Pseudo-Isidorian decretals by Rothad, and referred to them in A.
They founded upon the Isidorian decretals as showing their rights in the earliest times (§ 87, 2).
As the first attempt to use the non-genuine decretals only found in Pseudo-Isidore was made at the Synod of Soissons in A.
In enumerating the sources of the canon law alone valid almost all the Latin Councils and Papal Decretals were omitted, and the whole 85 Canones Apostt.
Hadrian, he characterized them in contrast with the genuine and valid decretals as secus a quoquam compilata sive conficta.
I call upon our civil authorities to ponder and weigh well the import of his words, and never to forget, that there is no Catholic in this country or elsewhere, who will dare to say that the decretals and commands of Paul IV.
We should pull it down were it amongst us; we should scatter to the winds these Popish brief s, decretals and bulk, which thousands of monks were employed in copying and binding.
Let it not disturb anyone that in the Decretals on Penance and in the IV.
I say this because of the mad opinion, which is now prevalent, that sins which are committed against the decretals of the popes are to be noted with wondrous care, but sins committed against God, with little or none.
They are quite at liberty to prefer, as indeed they do, the law of Moses to the Papal decretals and their mad articles,[1643] but they have no right to prefer it to the pure Evangel.
The Papists, however, who seek to erect a Church on conciliar decrees and decretals will only arouse dissensions among themselves and ‘wash the tiles’—however much they may pride themselves on their reason and wisdom.
Nay, he found that the tyrannical pretensions of the Pope, even if more than a thousand years old, derived their sole and ultimate authority from the Papal decretals of the last four centuries.
After one of the masters of arts had built up a pile, Luther laid the decretals upon it, and the former applied the fire.
He made sarcastic references to the papal decretals and to the quibblings of Scholastic Theology.
The forgeddecretals of the pseudo-Isidor (used by Pope Nicholas I.
The papal decretals had become the great source of canonical law.
This authoritative work preserved Gratian's Decretum intact, but suppressed, or abridged and reordered, the decretals contained in subsequent collections.
It is expressed in custom, universal and established, and it is found in written form in the works of the Fathers, in the decrees of Councils, in the decretals of the popes, and in the concordats and conventions with secular sovereignties.
For many centuries theDecretals bearing the great name of Isidore had been cherished as among the most valued muniments of the Church.
About the middle of the same century St. Bernard still complained that monks had too much to do with medicine; and a few years later we have decretals like those of Pope Alexander III forbidding monks to study or practise it.
When Luther had the Decretals publicly burnt at Wittemberg, the insult was designed for the pope, rather than as a condemnation of the canon law itself.
The catholic, who had said that the decretals were extravagant, might not have intended to depreciate them, or make any concession to the Lutheran.
Decretals of Isidore, 308; in the prayer-book of Columbus, ib.
Luther did not consign the pope's decretals to the flames till 1520--this was the first open act of reformation and insurrection, for hitherto he had submitted to the court of Rome.
St. Raymond of Pennaforte, the compiler of the decretals of Gregory IX.
For the rapidity with which the Church assimilated the Roman law see the collection ofdecretals by Alexander III.
The Decretals of Isodore furnish another example of Papal infallibility (?
The spurious character of these false decretals have since been proved beyond the shadow of a doubt; and since it is impossible to deny it longer, it is admitted even by Romanists.
Next, a yet larger and more ponderous volume, Decreta Romanorum Pontificum--the Papal decretals and the Acts of the Councils.
A leading example is a copy of the Decretals in the British Museum (Royal 10, E.
The important feature of the book is the arrangement of the decretals or sections of decretals in five books, divided into titles (tituli) logically arranged.
As was natural this collection received successive additions as further decretals appeared.
The first and most important is the work of Bernard, provost and afterwards bishop of Pavia, namely, the Breviarium extravagantium, compiled about 1190; it included the decretals from Alexander III.
The quarta, the author of which is unknown, contained the decretals of the last six years of Innocent III.
For the period between the False Decretals and Gratian, there is no work of this sort, but the materials have been put together and published in part by M.
The Liber Sextus is cited like the decretalsof Gregory IX.
This is why we find in them hardly any documents earlier than the time of Gratian, and also why canonists have continued to refer to the decretals of Gregory IX.
The False Decretals did not greatly modify nor corrupt the Canon Law, but they contributed much to accelerate its progress towards unity.
Raymond does not attempt any original work; to the texts already included in the Quinque compilationes, he adds only nine decretals of Innocent III.
For theDecretals we should mention: Bernard of Pavia[31] (c.
Raymond of Pennafort, who had been a professor of canon law in the University of Bologna, to codify all the decretals since the time of Gratian.
Some ten years later Bernard of Parma wrote a commentary on the decretals of Gregory.
Gregory's decretals were published in five books; a supplement under the name of the sixth book was published under Pope Boniface VIII.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "decretals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
