0 relating to the position or authority of the Pope (= the leader of the Roman Catholic Church):
a papal messenger/announcement/election
The main body of the work consists of a calendar of the 840 papal and other documents that occur in the collection.
About 35 per cent of the papal letters appear in the papal registers, and the majority of documents in the collection have already been printed.
The translator also omits any reference to the letter's formal dating-clause, a characteristic feature of papal correspondence.
A three-fold index allows such a wide-ranging volume to be a most profitable addition to resources for early modern papal history.
With the loss of the papal states there was no longer need for a political heavyweight, but neither was he a scholar.
The real issue here is not modernism itself but outrage against the counter-cultural papal authority which condemned it.
The retention of learned counsel was expensive and journeys to the papal court, often for considerable periods of time, were a constant drain on resources.
Respect for papal dignity should rather encourage those who possess charity to correct papal errors.
