44. This
papal constitution revoked the old calendar and ordered Patriarchs, primates,
archbishops, bishops, and abbots to use the newly revised calendar. This can
be seen both in the constitution itself and in the Annals of Gregory XIII,
vol. 2, p. 271. Rome 1742. But since there is no mention of Orientals in the
constitution, the question arises as to whether it applies to Orientals. This
question has been raised not only by learned men such as Azorius, Instit.
Moral., vol. 1, bk. 5, chap. 11, qu. 7; and Baldellus, Theologia
Morali, vol. 1, bk. 5, disp. 41, but it was also discussed by the famous
gentlemen who met in the palace of Cardinal Pamphilius, later Pope Innocent
X, on July 4, 1631. These men concluded that "the subjects of the four
eastern patriarchates should not be bound by new papal constitutions except
in three cases: first, on the subject of teachings of the faith; second, if
the Pope mentions them expressly in his Constitution and makes arrangements;
third, it they are implicitly included in the arrangements of the
Constitution as in cases of invitation to a future council." This
resolution is reported by Verricellus, de Apostolicis Missionibus,
bk. 3, chap. 38, no. 4, and by Us in Our work on de Canonizatione Sanct.,
bk. 2, chap. 38, no. 15.
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