Probe Te Meminisse
''Probe te meminisse'' was a papal bull issued by Pope Benedict XIV on 15 December 1751. Like all List of papal bulls, other papal bulls, it takes its name from its incipit, . The bull authorized the forced baptism of Jewish children without parental consent, building on Benedict’s earlier 1747 bull, ''Postremo mense''. It established ecclesiastical authority to override civil protections for Jewish communities, enabling the removal of baptized children to ensure Christian education, and imposed punishments for Jewish converts who reverted to Judaism, treating such acts as apostasy. Rooted in theological principles from Thomas Aquinas and earlier traditions, the bull reflected the Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church’s 18th-century Sacraments of the Catholic Church, sacramental polity aimed at controlling religious conversion and interfaith relations, particularly in the Papal States where Jewish communities faced ghettoization and restrictions. The bull had a significant i ...
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