| Boniface VIII also issued a supplement of decretals that were promulgated in 1298 and attached to the compilation of Gregory. |
| That the pseudo-Isidorian decretals were not written with a view of exalting the papal power, but rather that of the bishops. |
| The archbishops eagerly accepted the decretals because they hoped to profit by their doctrines. |
| Various commentaries, all based upon the decretals as the chief repertory, were made by prominent churchmen. |
| In short these decretals carried the papal theocracy far beyond any claims made up to that time by the Popes themselves. |
| But those writings were condemned as spurious in the decretals attributed to Pope Gelasius at the end of the fifth century. |
