Question

.................. were documents issued by the church. *​

Answer 1

Papal Documents and church council documents

Answer 2

The documents issued by the church were encyclical.

• An encyclical was initially a globular letter sent to all the churches of an area in the ancient Roman Church.  

• An encyclical is commonly used for important issues and secondly, it is important only to the highest-ranking document (present-day issued by popes, an Apostolic Constitution)  

• Encyclicals specify high papal precedence for an issue at a specified time.

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