Folio 179

Lateran Council I, 1123

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360. Can. 3. We absolutely forbid priests, deacons, or subdeacons the intimacy of concubines and of wives, and cohabitation with other women, except those with whom for reasons of necessity alone the Nicene Synod permits them to live, that is, a mother, sister, paternal or maternal aunt, or others of this kind concerning whom no suspicion may justly arise [see n. 52 b f.].1

361. Can. 4. "Besides according to the sanction of the most blessed Pope Stephen we have decided that laymen, although they are religious, nevertheless have no faculty for determining anything concerning ecclesiastical possessions; but according to the Canons of the Apostles let the bishop have the care of all ecclesiastical business, and let him dispense these things as in the sight of God. If, therefore, any civil ruler or other layman appropriates to himself either a donation of property or of ecclesiastical possessions, let him be judged sacrilegious."2

362. Can. 5. "We forbid that the marriages of blood relatives take place since both divine and secular laws forbid these. For divine laws not only cast out but also call wicked those who do this, and those who are born

[continuation of the preceding footnote from p. 146:] synods, Lat. I hoc can. 1; Lat. II 1139, can. 1 and 2 [see n. 364]; Lat. III 1179, can. 7 and 15 [see n. 400]; Lat. IV 1215, can. 63 [Msi XXII 1051]. By these decrees simoniac ordinations and promotions of any kind and purchases of things of the altar are prohibited.

  1. The following are against the heresy of the Nicolaites, that is, of incontinent clergy, who were regarded as heretics in so far as they not only infringed upon the church law of celibacy and practiced concubinage, but also dishonored the law as impossible for them to keep, and harmful to morals. The following decrees also pertain to this: Leo IX in Mainz 1049 [Msi XIX 749 C]; Gregory VII in Roman Synod 1073 [Msi XX 173 E]; 1074, c. 11-21 [Msi XX 413 ff. 434]; 1078, c. 11 [Msi XX 510 E]; Urban II in Melfi 1089, c. 2 12 [Msi XX 723 f.]; Claromontana 1095, c. 1 [Msi XX 906 A]; Callistus II in Remensi 1119, c. 5 [Msi XXI 236 B]; Lat. I oec., hoc can. 3; Lat. II 1139, can. 6 7 8, which declares the marriages of older clergy and regulars invalid [Msi XXI 527 f.]; Lateran III, 1179 c. 11 [Msi XXII 224 f.]. ↩

  2. From Pseudo-Isidore [Hinschius, Decretales Pseudo-Isidorianae, Lipsiae 1863 p. 186]. With this and the following can. 10 the very lengthy struggle on investitures was finished, which pertains to this in so far as it is also concerned with the principle, whether or not the power of the magisterium and of the ecclesiastical ministry flows from the civil magistrate by his own right. The following, moreover, pertains to this: Nicholas II in Roman Synod 1059, c. 6 [Msi XIX 909 A] and in Synod of Tours 1060, c. 4 [Msi XIX 927 C]; St. Gregory VII in Roman Synod 1075 [Hfl V 41, 46 f.; Msi XX 434 f.], 1078 c. 2 [Msi XX 509 C; cf. 517 f.]; 1080, c. 1 f. [Msi XX 531 f.] etc.; Victor III [Msi XX 637, 639 ff.]; Urban II in the Synod of Melfi 1089 c. 5 [Msi XX 723 B], in Claromontana c. 15 [Msi XX 817 D], in Barensis 1098; [Msi XX 1061 E], Roman Synod 1099 c. 17 [Msi XX 964 B]; Paschal II in Roman Synod 1110, c. 4 [Msi XXI 7]; 1116 [Msi XXI 147 D]; in Synod of Guastalla 1106 [Msi XX 1210 E]. Trecan. 1107 [Msi XX 1223 B], in Synod of Benevento 1108 [Msi XX 1231 B]; in Council of Vienne 1112, c. 1 [Msi XXI 74 D]; Callistus II in Remen. 1119, c. 2 [Msi XXI 235 D]; Lat. II 1139, c. 25 [Msi XXI 532 D]. ↩