You knew that once they were in our hot little hands, it would take a papal edict to dislodge them from here.

Enforcing rules like a papal edict is not smart."

By the end of the Middle Ages, papal edicts extended these requirements to a majority of days during the year.

Due to a papal edict preventing women from appearing onstage in Rome, it premiered with castrati singing all the female roles.

In an hour's conversation, the Cardinal remains slightly elusive, possibly because virtually any utterance by him is taken by some as little less than papal edict.

Even after a Papal edict instructing Tripoli to fall under the jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, it did not.

But a flurry of transfusion attempts using blood from calves and sheep as well as humans ended in disaster, prompting a papal edict to ban the practice.

Pope Pius X issued the papal edict Quam singulari, which specified that children could receive their First Communion at age 7.

By the time the Society was suppressed by papal edict in 1773, it was operating more than eight hundred universities, seminaries, and especially secondary schools almost around the globe.

In 1210, suspicious of the growing popularity of miracle plays, Pope Innocent III issued a papal edict forbidding clergy from acting on a public stage.

The participation of female singers was prohibited by Papal edict, and the Pope went to the length of admonishing Ruspoli for permitting Durastanti to take part.

Asked once about a Papal edict against priests becoming involved in politics, Monsignor Healy said, "I'm not in politics, my job is to be a peacemaker, to settle strikes."

"We let baby carriages and strollers steamroll over us on crowded sidewalks and in stores, as if it's a papal edict that they have the right of way," she wrote in an article last month.

This he gave to them, gifting to them a papal ring, the Standard of St. Peter, and a papal edict to present to the English clergy saying that William was given the papal blessing for his bid to the throne.

In the late 19th century, the Recollects (under protest) turned over many of their mission territories, including those in the upper Agusan region, to the reconstituted Jesuit order (the Jesuits had been banned by Papal edict in the 1760s, and ejected from the Philippines in 1768).

Gregory XI took the decision upon the request of Gentile III da Varano with the papal edict of 29 January 1377, directed to the commune and to the people, authorizing Camerino to confer (after appropriate examination) bachelor and doctoral degrees with apostolic authority.

Papal edict forbade the appearance of women on the stage, so Livia was played by the 17-year old male castrato Crescentini (whose later career was so illustrious that he was granted the Iron Crown of Lombardy by Napoleon), and Madama Brillante by Giuseppe Censi.

In regard to the mass, the cup having been withdrawn from the laity during the later eleventh and early twelfth centuries, the theory of the priestly miracle of transubstantiation was finally codified at the Lateran Council in 1215, and the feast of the corpus Christi was generalized by papal edict in 1264.

Although Spain "refused to concede France's right to be in Louisiana" and warned King Louis XIV of France that he could be excommunicated for ignoring the 200-year-old papal edict giving the Americas to Spain, they took no further actions to stop France's encroachment or expand the Spanish presence.