Storia Cristiana: Il Concilio di Trento completo: Sessione 0

Introduction: BULL OF INDICTION PAUL, bishop, servant of the servants of God, for the future memory hereof. At the beginning of this our pontificate,–which, not for any merits of our own, but of its own great goodness, the providence of Almighty God hath committed unto us,–already perceiving unto what troubled times, and unto how many embarrassments in almost all our affairs, our pastoral solicitude and watchfulness were called; we would fain indeed have remedied the evils wherewith the Christian commonwealth…