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Lateran Council

NOUN
  1. any of five general councils of the Western Catholic Church that were held in the Lateran Palace

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  • Furthermore, annual confession had been made obligatory in 1215 at the Fourth Lateran Council so that a priest had an opportunity to talk privately to the penitents and to correct errors as well as giving them absolution for their sins.
  • To neutralize the risk that these philosophical positions would lead to heterodox beliefs, a decree of the Fifth Lateran Council (Apostolici regiminis, 1513) had made the immortality of the soul a dogma of the Church and had commanded all university professors of philosophy, when lecturing on doctrines that deviated from it, to make every effort to teach the truth of the Christian religion and to refute any philosophical arguments that challenged it. Pietro Pomponazzi
  • The clause among the Fourth Lateran Council decrees that proposed regulated taxes for the churches and provinces of Christendom suggests as much.
  • Instances of such normal, natural, perfect co-operation occur in the five Lateran councils, which were presided over by the pope in person; the personal presence of the highest authority in the Church, his direction of the deliberations, and approbation of the decrees, stamp the conciliary proceedings throughout as the function of the Magisterium Ecclesiae in its most authoritative form. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
  • There are few landmark dates, but 1215 is one: the Lateran Council then forbade the involvement of the clergy in the awful trials by ordeal.
  • Though the Monophysites in general spoke of "one theandric operation", yet a speech of St. Martin at the Lateran Council tells us that a certain Colluthus would not go even so far as this, for he feared lest "theandric" might leave some operation to the human nature; he preferred the word thekoprepes, Deo decibilis (Mansi, X, The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
  • But at the Lateran Council of 649, under Martin I, Monotheletism as well as the _Ecthesis_ and _Typos_ were condemned. A Source Book for Ancient Church History
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