Postremvs Catalogvs Haereticorum Romæ conflatus, 1559

fury, indeed, than in other Articles. Finally, about the Würtemberg Confession, in which they also acted in a completely tyrannical manner in condemning it. And so that I do not delay longer, I will begin from that which was first:

Paul III, in the year of the Virgin's birth 1548, on the day before the Kalends of September, sent three Bishops into Germany to perform a certain new legation. These were the Bishop of Fano, the Bishop of Verona, and the Bishop of Ferentino. The title of the legation was: For the reduction of many peoples of the German nation, who have separated themselves from the union of the Church. These men, therefore, traveling through a great part of Germany, offered conditions to those who would be willing to be brought back and placed under the Papacy again. The conditions were few and ridiculous:
Namely, that they would be freely absolved from the penalties, which they had all incurred as very grave, especially those who, although they had been ordained, had nonetheless taken wives, to whom, however, they were going to grant pardon, provided that they had humbly asked to be received back into the orthodox faith with true and not feigned repentance, having nevertheless first rejected and expelled the wives thus joined and coupled to them in fact (these are the words from the bull itself)