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On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church

By: Martin Luther

...f. p. 24 n. 47. The dispute had already been decided by the fifteenthcentury popes: Eugene IV, Sixtus IV, and Alexander VI, who accepted the validity... ...is puffed up solely by the bulls (and they truly are “bulls”) 137 of human popes. Second, because it greatly tends to hypocrisy, by reason of its o... ... 105–106. aforementioned good works and idolatries which are taught by the popes nowadays. But if these most grievous sins do not prevent one’s sal... ...offices involving pastoral care. The clever and lucrative ways in which the popes legally circumvented this statute Luther describes in An Open Lett...

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