A Pontifical Commission is a committee of Catholic experts convened by the Pope for a specific purpose. Examples include:
- Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State
- Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei
- Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church
- Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology
Famous quotes containing the word commission:
“Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don’t want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.”
—Marian Wright Edelman (b. 1939)