The two apostolic letters of 1537 on the liberty of the Indians (Pastorale officium and Veritas ipsa / Sublimis Deus)

Two acts of Paul III, four days apart in 1537: a brief to the Cardinal of Toledo threatening excommunication against anyone who enslaved the Indians, and the constitution declaring them "veros homines" who could not be deprived of liberty or property though they stood outside the faith. Read from a collection that prints both in Latin — including the fact usually left out, that the brief says the pope acted because the Emperor had already forbidden the same by public edict.