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But the papal decree goes much further.

For powerful ones, it offers a way to influence the Vatican and seek papal approval.

For this reason, if for no other, we should take this papal bull seriously.

Earlier, in 1298, papal and episcopal ceremonies had been standardized in the Roman pontifical.

Barrow: English theologian, scholar, and mathematician who wrote about trigonometry, optics, and papal supremacy.

Thousands of miles away, on the frontier between Argentina and Chile, papal diplomacy is remembered in a different way.

In Massachusetts, only Christians were allowed to hold public office, and Catholics were allowed to do so only after renouncing papal authority.

But the solution would represent such a dramatic reversal of age-old Catholic doctrine as to undermine any pretense of papal infallibility.

Eck: German Roman Catholic theologian who opposed the reforms of Martin Luther and procured from Rome the papal bull that declared Luther a heretic (1520).

The papal apology was widely anticipated and echoes the contrition the pope expressed on a visit to the United States earlier this year.

On Sunday an Italian nun in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, was shot dead at the entrance to a hospital; many feared a link to the papal row.

Pope Benedict arrived at Andrews Air Force base outside Washington having directly addressed one of the toughest issues facing him during his first papal visit to the United States.

Summed up like that, the central message of a keenly awaited papal pronouncement on the social and economic woes of the world may sound like a statement of the obvious.