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Decrees and Encyclicals of the Popes and the Catholic Church

Many Decrees of the Councils, Popes and the Church as well as Encyclicals can be found online in other websites.   Here will be presented those documents that are not readily available on the internet.  If you are looking for something, please contact us.

More decrees can be found here.

Second Council of Lyons

Canon 2 on Papal Elections

Canon 3 on contesting elections.

Pope Paul IV

Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio  (Note this is on other websites, but a key phrase has been omitted from paragraph 6)

Pope Pius V

Quo Primum  (Note this is on other websites, but one version in print for decades appears to be modified and pararaphs rearranged.) 

Regnans in Excelsis excommunciating Elizabeth I of England

De Defectibus Decree of Trent listing defects in the celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

Pope Clement XIII

Cum Primum 17, September, 1759

Pope

Aug. 28, 1794 Auctorem Fidei condemning the errors of Jansenist Synod of Pistoia

Pope Leo XIII

Depuis le jour, 8 September, 1899,

Pope Benedict XV

Pentecost , 1917 Providentissima promulgating the Code of Canon Law

Pope Pius XI

March 26, 1929  Decree of the Sacred Congregation of the Sacraments in regard to the bread and wine to be used at Mass

Resources on the Internet

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Circle of Prayer

Papal EncyclicalsThis resource has a number of Encyclicals on their site.

See also thispage at this site.

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