Decretals (Latin: litterae decretales) are letters of a pope that formulate decisions in ecclesiastical law of the Catholic Church. They are generally...

The Decretals of Gregory IX (Latin: Decretales Gregorii IX), also collectively called the Liber extra, are a source of medieval Catholic canon law. In...

Super Specula or Super Speculam was a decretal issued by Pope Honorius III at the latest by 1215, which had the effect of preventing the teaching of Roman...

Donation of Constantine was included in the 9th-century Pseudo-Isidorean decretals. Lorenzo Valla, an Italian Catholic priest and Renaissance humanist, is...

were extensive commentaries on all of the official collections of papal decretals, papal judgments in the form of letters to delegated judges that were...

treugis servandis", which was inserted in the collection of canon law, Decretal of Gregory IX, I, tit., "De treuga et pace". Aquinas challenged the Truce...

Bible and the church fathers, which Luther respected, rather than papal decretals and scholastic theology, which he despised. He rejected Luther's doctrine...

decretals. The second (1st quarter of the 12th century) contains the so-called Collectio Lanfranci (Lanfranc's Collection), a collection of decretals...

as heretical. The General Council of Vienne in 1312 established in the Decretal Fidei catholicæ fundamento (Bull. Franc., V, 86) the Catholic doctrine...

England on the Third Crusade. He left a large number of works including decretals concerning the church and English monarchy in the late 12th century. Joseph...

used by later supporters of papal primacy. These letters were known as 'decretals' from at least the time of Siricius (384–399) to Leo I provided general...

the end he maintained that John XXII had become a heretic by his four decretals, that he and his successors had forfeited the papacy, and that no priest...

those who serve at the altar may keep a perfect chastity." The Directa Decretal of Pope Siricius (385) states: "We have indeed discovered that many priests...

even in Catholic countries." Civil allegiance Divine right of kings Decretals of Gregory IX, commissioned in the year 1230 "Papal Deposing Power - 1910...

One].” Calvin Theological Journal 30.2 (1995): 345–375. “The Myth of ‘Decretal Theology’.” Calvin Theological Journal 30.1 (1995): 159–167. “On Being...