See post 5193.
Protestants have this fantasy of the Catholic Church which is fueled by non-Catholic run media and Protestant written hsitory text books. In this vision th4 Church is this wonderful but awful organization more like the KGB than anything else on earth.
It is of course, nonsense. Personally I think "imprimatur" is Latin for "what the heck!"
As I said, if you view the making and keeping of promises a loss of sovereignty, then this passage will give you the heebie jeebies. I happen to view making commitments and showing mercy as the perfection of freedom. So I have a different reaction.