Nor is it credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of the most necessary faculty to enable him to receive it.
Source: Sublimus Dei, May 29, 1537; on slavery in the New World.
-- Pope Paul III, (Feb 1 1468-1549), Italian religious leader; He was the last of the Renaissance popes and the first pope of the Counter-Reformation, 1534-49; gave approval to create Jesuits, 1540.