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gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.02
… hings pertaining to the public order, the bishops themselves recognize that the imperial governance has been conferred upon you by divine arrangement, and they obey your laws, lest they should seem to resist the order established for worldly affairs. With what affection, I ask, ought you to obey those who have been ass …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.02
The servants of your piety, my sons Faustus the master and Irenaeus, illustrious men, and their companions performing their public embassy, having returned to the city, said that your clemency had inquired why I had not sent writings of my greeting to you. Not by my own design, I confess, but since those who had long s …
innocent_i · c. 406 · score 0.02
… opal judgment was being awaited, sacred bishops were driven into exile? That by imperial favor, while the wretched prisons of the guilty were being opened, the innocent ministers of sacred law and peace were shut in by a cruel prison? That everything was thrown into confusion in the manner of war, and some were killed …
innocent_i · c. 413 · score 0.02
The authority of this apostolic see, established by the will of God through the blessed apostle Peter, extends its care over all the churches throughout the world, and therefore when questions arise that affect the discipline of the Church and the salvation of souls, it is right that they be referred to this see for re …
leo_great · c. 441 · score 0.02
He considers himself subject to no law, bound by no ordinance of God, and in his eagerness for novelty, departs from your practice and ours, adopting unlawful measures and letting what he ought to preserve fall into disuse. II. Hilary is disturbing the peace of the Church by his insubordination But with the approval, a …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.02
Amid various difficulties we are grateful that we have found the opportunity, most beloved brother Aeonius, by which we might address your love and testify to the solicitude which the apostolic see exercises through its own care for the churches of Gaul. For just as we are bound by the responsibility of universal overs …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.01
I need your help in compelling Stephen, who holds episcopal office, to submit himself to the judgment he has been evading. A bishop who flees from canonical examination is not only failing in his own duty — he is making a mockery of the system of ecclesiastical accountability that exists to protect the faithful. Use wh …
leo_great · c. 441 · score 0.01
He claims for himself the right to ordain bishops throughout all the provinces of Gaul and seizes the dignity that belongs to metropolitan bishops. He even diminishes the reverence owed to the blessed Peter himself with his proud assertions, for while the power of binding and loosing was given to Peter before all other …
boniface · c. 719 · score 0.01
Finally, we command you that in admitting within the Church those who have some kind of belief in God you will insist upon using the sacramental discipline prescribed in the official ritual formulary of the Holy Apostolic See. Whatever means you find lacking in the furtherance of your work, you are to report to us as o …
boniface · c. 743 · score 0.01
Be assured that you have a special place in our affections and that it would give us great pleasure to have you always by our side as a minister of God in charge of the churches of Christ. Finally, beloved brother, take strength in God. Persevere manfully in the work to which God'. in His mercy, has called you; for the …
leo_great · c. 441 · score 0.01
We are compelled to issue this stern correction because the wound inflicted by Hilary's misconduct requires a strong remedy. We do not wish to be harsh, but when patience is exploited and gentleness is mistaken for approval, severer measures are unavoidable. The entire Church is damaged when its proper order is overtur …
innocent_i · c. 413 · score 0.01
The purpose of the provincial synods which we have commanded to be held twice yearly is to ensure that the discipline of the clergy is maintained, that disputes among the bishops and clergy are resolved in a timely manner, and that the welfare of the faithful is promoted in all things. The metropolitan bears the primar …
gregory_great · c. 602 · score 0.01
You may proceed with the consecration of the basilica as requested. See that the ceremony is conducted with the proper solemnity, and that the building itself is fully prepared — nothing should be left unfinished or improvised. A church consecration is a significant occasion for the faithful in your area, and they dese …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
To Trajan. Several persons have petitioned me to grant them leave, as other proconsuls have done before my time, to transfer to other resting-places the remains of their ancestors, owing to the ravages of time, the inundation of rivers, or some other similar reasons. Knowing as I do that in Rome the permission of the p …
gregory_great · c. 599 · score 0.01
… eror's disposition is favorable -- my deacon, who represented our Church at the imperial court, reports that the Emperor fully supports this. Many good reports of our brother Syagrius have reached us, from your testimony and others', and especially from John the Regionarius [a papal regional officer] on his return to u …
leo_great · c. 442 · score 0.01
This must not continue. The appointment of one who is to govern all must proceed from the consent of all. A man who is to preside over a community must be chosen by that community. Otherwise he will be rejected or despised by those over whom he was imposed, and a peace that should have been preserved will be disturbed …
innocent_i · c. 406 · score 0.01
When these things were suddenly made known to us, I confess we were stricken. For who, in so bloody a crime, would not fear the offense of Almighty God? Or in what way could anyone think it beyond the utmost danger of the Roman world and of all mortals — when God Almighty, the author of our empire and the governor of t …
innocent_i · c. 403 · score 0.01
Concerning the names of those who offer: their names must be recited within the sacred mysteries and not outside them, for the offering is an integral part of the sacred action and those who offer must be commemorated within the action itself. These are the ancient practices of the Roman Church, which received its trad …
hormisdas · c. 515 · score 0.01
[Instructions for Pullio, subdeacon.] With God's help and the prayers of the holy apostles Peter and Paul, when you arrive at Nicopolis, you must proceed as follows: after the bishop of Nicopolis has received our letters, he should gather the bishops who are in his diocese and have them sign the formal statement [libel …
gelasius_i · c. 493 · score 0.01
But your love says that you have had so much charity toward me that you were not content merely to write but desired to hear speech in person. Let us examine whether the desire for such an encounter proceeds from true charity or from some other motive. For true charity does not seek communion with those who are separat …
leo_great · c. 441 · score 0.01
To the bishops of the Province of Vienne, in the matter of Hilary, Bishop of Arles. I. The solidarity of the Church, built upon the rock of St. Peter, must be maintained everywhere To the beloved brothers, the whole body of bishops of the province of Vienne: Leo, Bishop of Rome. Our Lord Jesus Christ, Savior of mankind …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.01
We have also received complaints that certain bishops are conducting themselves more like secular lords than like pastors of souls, displaying worldly pomp and luxury that are contrary to the spirit of the Gospel. We admonish all bishops to remember that they are the successors of the apostles, who left all things to f …
innocent_i · c. 416 · score 0.01
Pope Innocent I to Florentinus, Bishop of Tibur. Divine Scripture cries out not once but many times that the boundaries established by the fathers are not to be transferred. It is wrong for one person to seize what another has always possessed. Innocent writes to Florentinus because someone has intruded into a foreign …
gregory_great · c. 595 · score 0.01
Gregory to his most reverend brother Syagrius, bishop of Autun. I have heard with great pleasure of the assistance you gave to my servant Augustine in his mission to the English. [Augustine of Canterbury, sent by Gregory to convert the Anglo-Saxons, passed through Burgundy on his journey and received crucial support fr …
innocent_i · c. 403 · score 0.01
If the institutions of the holy fathers are to be maintained, which we have no doubt your love preserves, since both the antiquity of customs and the apostolic authority commend them, we ought to observe those things which have been handed down to us by the tradition of the fathers and not to defile them by any innovat …