Storia do Mogor 338.24.3

338.24.3

As the Most Holy Father Boniface VIII. ordained in his Clementina, 'Injunctae,' 'Sane de electione inter communes,' no person asserting a delegation shall be believed or obeyed until he shall have previously made legal publication of his commission. He ordained that any interdicts fulminated by such a person should be null and of no effect. This law prevails throughout the Catholic Church, above all in Asia, which is at such a distance from the Apostolic See, where it would be difficult to redress any abuses introduced by a person who might thus act under his powers as delegate. Therefore we declare that the Lord Dom Carlos Thomas, entitling himself Patriarch of Antioch and Legate à latere, has tried to introduce himself into the Christian communities of India, altering the laws and civil customs of the Christians without having experience of them, and perturbing these congregations. Those in Madras are, we find, deprived of the administration of the sacraments, the friars, their parish priests, being by him declared outside the law.