Fourth Council of Lateran
Fourth Council of Lateran
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FOURTH COUNCIL OF LATERAN
Confession of Faith
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On the error of abbot Joachim
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On Heretics
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On the pride of the Greeks towards the Latins
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The dignity of the patriarchal sees
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On yearly provincial councils
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The correction of offences and the reform of morals
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On inquests
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On different rites within the same faith
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On appointing preachers
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On schoolmasters for the poor
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On general chapters of monks
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A prohibition against new religious orders
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Clerical incontinence
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Clerical gluttony and drunkeness
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Decorum in the dress and behaviour of clerics
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Dissolute prelates
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Clerics to dissociate from shedding-blood
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That profane objects may not be stored in churches
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Chrism and the Eucharist to be kept under lock and key
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On yearly confession to one's own priest, yearly communion, the confessional seal
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Physicians of the body to advise patients to call physicians of the soul
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Churches are to be without a prelate for no more than 3 months
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Democratic election of pastors
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Invalid elections
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Nominees for prelatures to be carefully screened
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Candidates for the priesthood to be carefully trained and scrutinized
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Who asks to resign must resign
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Multiple benefices require papal dispensation
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Penalties for bestowing ecclesiatical benefices on the unworthy
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Canons' sons cannot be canons where their fathers are
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Parish priests to have adequate incomes
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Renumeration for visitations to be reasonable
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Prelates forbidden to procure ecclesiastical services at a profit
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On appeal procedures
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On interlocutory sentences
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On summons by apostolic letter
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Written records of trials to be kept
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On knowingly receiving stolen goods
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True owner is the true possessor even if not possessing the object for a year
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No one is to knowingly prescribe an object to the wrong party
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Clerics and laity are not to usurp each others rights
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Clerics cannot be forced to take oaths of fealty to those from whom they hold no temporalities
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Only clerics may dispose of church property
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Penalties for patrons who steal church goods or physically harm their clerics
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Taxes cannot be levied on the Church, but the Church can volunteer contributions for the common good
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On unjust excommunication
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Challenging an ecclesiastical judge
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Penalties for excommunication out of avarice
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Prohibition of marriage is now perpetually restricted to the fourth degree
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Clandestine marriages forbidden
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On rejecting evidence from hearsay at a matrimonial suit
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On those who give their fields to others to be cultivated so as to avoid tithes
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Tithes should be paid before taxes
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Tithes are to be paid on lands acquired, notwithstanding privileges
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A parish priest shall not lose a tithe on account of some people making a pact
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Interpreting the words of privileges
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On the same in favour of bishops
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Religious cannot give surety without permission of his abbot and convent
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Abbots not to encroach on episcopal office
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Religious may not receive tithes from lay hands
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Regarding saint's relics
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On simony
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Simony with regards to monks and nuns
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Simony and extortion
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Simony and avarice in clerics
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Jews and excessive usury
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Jews appearing in public
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Jews not to hold public offices
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Jewish converts may not retain their old rite
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Crusade to recover the Holy Land