Fourth Lateran Council (1215)
The seventy-one constitutions of the twelfth ecumenical council, held at the Lateran in 1215 under Innocent III: the profession of faith Firmiter credimus (with the definition of transubstantiation), the condemnation of Joachim of Fiore and the Albigensians, annual confession and Easter communion, the reform of the clergy and the preparation of the Fifth Crusade. Latin text with Schroeder's English (1937).
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Source: Complete as transcribed. The digitisation has its punctuation largely stripped, no capitals at the start of sentences, lowercase deus/dominus, and no canon numbers; the text is left as transcribed, with line breaks kept as paragraph breaks, the digitisation's split enclitics rejoined ("ideo que" → "ideoque") and bracketed headings turned into markdown headings. The English of Schroeder (1937) numbers the canons. · For each canon Schroeder's one-sentence summary (in italics) and the translated text. Schroeder's historical introduction, his comments and his footnotes are not included, and the OCR's running heads and page-end footnotes were stripped by script (research/sourcing/_scripts/councils_schroeder.py); a few inline footnote marks and OCR slips remain. Schroeder translates the disciplinary decrees only.