IN CCUNA DOM'INI (Lat.. at the Supper of the Lord). A celebrated Papal hull, so called be cause designed to he read in the Church on every Holy Thursday, the day on which the Lord's Supper was instituted. It is not, as other bulls. the work of a single pope, but with various ad dit ions and modifications, dates back to early times; sonic tracing it to Urban V., and others to liirtin V., Clement V., and sonic to Boni face VW. Its present form, however. it re ceived from the popes Julius II., Paul III_ and finally Urban VIM., in hi27, after which it continued for a century and a half to be pub lished annually. Pius V., in 1565. decreed that it should be read every lloly Thursday until superseded. The contents of this bull have been a fertile subject of controversy. It may he briefly described as a summary of e celesiastical censures, especially of those with which grievous violation of the faith of the Church. or of the rights of the Church or of the Roman see, are visited ; excommun ieat ion being donounced against hcresy, schism, sacrilege. usurpation of the rights
of the Church or of the Pope. forcible and unlaw ful seizure of Church property. personal violence against ecclesiastics. unlawful interruption of the free of the faithful with Rome. etc. The bull, however. although mainly dealing with offenses against the Church. also denounced tinder similar censures other crimes. as piracy, plunder of shipwrecked goods, forgery. etc. This bull. being regarded by most of the sovereigns of Europe as an infringement of their rights. en muntered in the seventeenth century the deter mined opposition of nearly all the courts, even the most Catholic: and at length, in 1770, Cle ment XIV. discontinued its publication, which has never since been renewed. Pius IX., on October 12, 1SG9, abrogated many of its cen sures.