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ALLOCUTION (Lat. allocutio, an address)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 698 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALLOCUTION (
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Lat. allocutio, an address)
  , a name given to the formal addresses made by the pope to the College of Cardinals and through them to the church generally . They are usually called forth by ecclesiastical or
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political circumstances, and aim at safeguarding papal principles and claims . They are published by being affixed to the door of St Peter's Church .

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