Talk:Romanus Pontifex

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Yuioplkjhga (talk) 21:25, 11 December 2007 (UTC)—** It should be noted that there does not exist any Papal Bull Dum Diversas, nor is there a Papal Bull Romanus Pontifex written by Pope Nicholas V. The authors who wrote these books claiming such Bulls and supposedly quoting from them, cannot provide proof of any valid source to indicate the actual existence any of these alleged Bulls. Catholic sources validate the non-existence, and would be interested to see any such Bulls should they exist. The only reference to "Romanus Pontifex" is from The Bull “"Romanus Pontifex" of 25 April, 1506, approved by Julius II regarding the Shroud of Turin. Another mention is the Constitution "Romanus Pontifex" of 23 August, 1873. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Itai (talkcontribs)

This argumentation is not convincing. The existing of the bull Romanus Pontifex of 1455 is denied. As a proof is a link added, which mentions the bull Romanus Pontifex of 1506 [1]. If there is a second bull with the same name, then you are free to publish another article and add a page for disambiguation. I am in doubt about your source. I found no other information about such a bull in 1506. But there are many sources, which report about the bull Romanus Pontifex of 1455, e.g.
Please verify your arguments. Either provide other sources or remove your links to www.newadvent.org and the neutrality tag in the article.
Tomatom (talk) 07:54, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
There are no other sources with the doubtful arguments of www.newadvent.org. So I remove the links and the neutrality tag. --Tomatom (talk) 20:13, 10 January 2008 (UTC)