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Decet Romanum Pontificem (1521) is the
papal bull excommunicating Martin Luther, bearing the title of the first three
Latin words of the text:
[It] befits [the] Roman Pontiff in
English. It was issued on
January 3,
1521 by
Pope Leo X to effect the excommunication threatened in his earlier papal bull
Exsurge Domine (1520) since Luther failed to recant accordingly. Luther had burned his copy of
Exsurge Domine on
December 10,
1520 at the
Elster Gate in
Wittenberg, indicating his response to it.
There are at least two other important papal bulls with the title
Decet Romanum Pontificem: one dated
February 23,
1596, issued by
Pope Clement VIII, and one dated
March 12,
1622, issued by
Pope Gregory XV.
Toward the end of the 20th century
Lutherans in dialogue with the Roman Catholic Church requested the lifting of this
excommunication; however, the
Vatican's response was that its practice is to lift excommunications only on those still living.
Roland Bainton in "
Here I Stand after a Quarter of a Century," his preface for the 1978 edition of his Luther biography, concludes: "I am happy that the Church of Rome has allowed some talk of removing the excommunication of Luther. This might well be done. He was never a heretic. He might better be called, as one has phrased it, 'a reluctant rebel.'"
Luther's rehabilitation has been denied however by the Vatican, "Rumors that the Vatican is set to rehabilitate Martin Luther, the 16th-century leader of the Protestant Reformation, are groundless," said the Vatican spokesman, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi.
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