Allocution

Allocution (Latin allocutio " speech " ) generally refers to a formal speech. In diplomatic usage, it is the speech or the greetings of an ambassador to a meeting. The allocution is generally used to specifically and precisely to address what one thinks of certain occasions do. Hence some form of arrangement is connected to the " assembled ". Ultimately, in principle, doubts and disagreements are resolved.

Roman military significance

The concept of allocutio was used by the Roman generals for addressing the commanders to their troops. This took place before or during a battle to shake up the combatants and to exhort their obligations towards. The term was adopted by the ecclesiastical authorities and kept for years much of its original meaning, especially when it came to " the struggle of the Holy Catholic Church." A on March 7, 1853 became known allocution concerning the establishment of five dioceses in the Netherlands broke in the majority Protestant population of a considerable indignation. Statesman Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, who had led the negotiations with the Church, handed in his resignation in the wake. Even with his speech Iamdudum cernimus was Pope Pius IX. to the fierce struggle between the competing principles truth and error, virtue and vice, as well as light and darkness a.

Papal speeches

At the present time the allocution in the Roman Catholic Curia and the College of Cardinals is understood as a Pope's address to a religious or political issue. With it, the Pope can connect an Exhortation or take a position on specific issues, but also make recommendations. The speeches of the popes are documented and published in part.