The Bull Summis Desiderantes (Innocent VIII) December 5, 1484 (Sicced the Inquisition on so-called witches)

The Bull Inter Caetera (Alexander VI), May 4, 1493 (Divided the non-Christian world between Spain and Portugal)

The Bull Sublimis Deus Sic Dilexit (Paul III), June 2, 1537 (Decreed that Indians were human)

The Encyclical Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX) December 8, 1864 (Decreed that democracy, equality, liberty, freedoms were in error)

Vatican Council I Dogma Pastor Aeternus (Pius IX) July 18, 1870 (Declared the Pope infallible)

The Encyclical Sacerdotalis Caelibatus (Paul VI) June 24, 1967 (Commanded clerical celibacy)

The Encyclical Humanae Vitae (Paul VI) July, 25, 1968 (Condemned the use of birth control)

The Dictum Declaration The Lord Jesus–On the Unicity and Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and the Church (John Paul II) September 5, 2000 (Called other Christian faiths "gravely deficient," and decreed that salvation comes only through the Catholic Church)