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from these (marriages); but secular laws call such disreputable, and they cast them off from inheritance. We, therefore, following our Fathers point them out in disgrace, and we declare that they are disreputable."1

363. Can. 10. Let no one unless canonically elected extend his hand for consecration to the episcopacy. But if he should presume to do so, let both the one consecrated and the one consecrating be deposed without hope of restoration.

HONORIUS II 1124-1130

INNOCENT II 1130-1143

LATERAN COUNCIL II 1139

Ecumenical X (against pseudo-pontiffs)

Simony, Usury, False Penitence, the Sacraments2

364. Can. 2. If anyone with the intervention of the accursed ardor of avarice has acquired through money an allowance from the state, or a priory, or a deanery, or honor, or some ecclesiastical promotion, or any ecclesiastical sacrament, namely chrism or holy oil, the consecrations of altars or of churches, let him be deprived of the honor evilly acquired. And let the buyer and the seller and the mediator be struck with the mark of disgrace. And not for food nor under the pretense of any custom before or after may anything be demanded from anyone, nor may he himself presume to give, since he is a simoniac. But freely and without any diminution let him enjoy the dignity and favor acquired for himself.3

  1. From Pseudo-Isidore [Hinschius, Pseudo-Isidoran Decretals p. 140]. These are against the heresy of the incestuous. Those were so called who contended that unions of relatives were not illicit and counted the grades of consanguinity according to the norm of civil law. Against these the following defended canonical law and doctrine: Leo IX in Roman Synod I, 1049 [Msi XIX 722 D] and Remen. 1049, c. 11 [Msi XIX 742 C]; Nicholas II in Roman Synod, 1059, c. 11 [Msi XIX 898 e]; Alexander II in Roman Synod, 1063, c. 9 [Msi XIX 1026 A]; but especially indeed in Rom., 1065, in which he publishes a decretal, quae causa 35, q. 5, c. 2 habetur; Urban II in syn. Troian., 1089 [Msi XX 721 C]; Lat. oec. II, 1139, c. 17 [Msi XXI 530 E]: "We forbid absolutely the formation of unions of blood-relatives; for incest of this kind, which has almost come into general practice under the stimulus of the enemy of the human race, the institutions of the Holy Fathers and the Holy Church of God despise." But Lat. IV reduced the prohibited grades to the number of four, c. 50 [Msi XXII 1035 E]. ↩

  2. Msi XXI 526 C ff.; Hrd VI, II 1028 B ff.; cf. Hfl V 440 ff.; Bar(Th) ad 1139 n. 4 f. (18, 566 a ff.). ↩

  3. The following have decreed that nothing be exacted for holy oil, chrism, visitation and anointing of the sick, funeral obsequies, burial, baptism, the eucharist, ↩