Pontifical Encyclical: Remissionem Peccatorum

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Encyclical Concerning Indulgences, 1573

 

 

 

        We have been called upon in recent weeks to proclaim a crusade against the heathens and apostates inhabiting the Dreadlands, partly in retribution for their crimes against us and partly to bring God’s Word into a faithless land. However, in conference with His Imperial Majesty we have found that while a holy war may be justified it is not necessarily prudent for either the success of our cause or the health of the body of Church--accordingly we decline to proclaim a crusade unless circumstances change to require it. Nevertheless, we judge the intent and nature of His Imperial Majesty’s war to be just, for it comprises both an act of self-defense and a pious attempt to save the souls of nonbelievers. Accordingly, we exercise our authority to offer plenary absolution to sincere believers as such:

 

• For those who combat apostates in the Dreadlands alongside His Imperial Majesty’s forces, we absolve them of venial sins of doubt and negligence in prayer for which they are sincerely penitent before God.

 

• For those who bring about heartfelt conversion from any resident of that nation, we absolve them of mortal sins of blasphemy, heresy, and apostasy for which they are sincerely contrite before God and which they have confessed before a priest of the Church.

 

• For those who secure land and devote it to the wellbeing of the pious poor and the Mother Church, particularly by construction and consecration of a chapel or monastery, we absolve all involved of venial and mortal sins of sloth, wrath, covetousness, and desire for which they are sincerely contrite before God and which they have confessed before a priest of the Church.

 

        We enjoin those participants in this conflict to act with temperance and virtue, eschewing sinful acts such as the taking of spoils or the abuse of the weak. We likewise remind those who receive these absolutions that the Lord is both the Most Merciful and the Most Wise--He rejects insincere penance, and a sin committed with purposeful disrespect for His mercy is more grievous than any other.

 

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• His Holiness Sixtus IV, High Pontiff of the Holy Church of the Canon, Vicar of God, Successor to the Laurel of Horen, Metropolitan Bishop of Johannesburg and the Crownlands, Sovereign of the Holy See, Head of the Pentarch, Blessed Servant of the Servants of God

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