Papal Bulls

Photo Credit: Pope Alexander VI’s Demarcation Bull, May 4, 1493. Via Gilder Lehrman Collection

Papal Bulls

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Papal Bull Dum Diversas 18 June, 1452
- English Quotations from Dum Diversas and the Latin original via google books
The Bull Romanus Pontifex (Nicholas V), January 8, 1455
The Bull Inter Caetera (Alexander VI), May 4, 1493
Expansion of Papal Bulls
Sublimis Deus (Sublimis Dei) A Brief Overview
- Sublimis Deus, Pastorale Officium and Non IndecensVidetur – A Historical Dive Into the Vatican’s Failure to Rescind the Doctrine of Discovery
Joint Statement of the Dicasteries for Culture and Education and for Promoting Integral Human Development on the “Doctrine of Discovery”, 30.03.2023
- Responses to the Joint Statement of the Dicastries

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