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Lateran Council III, 1179

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397. If between the man and the woman legitimate consent . . . occurs in the present, so indeed that one expressly receives another by mutual consent with the accustomed words, . . . whether an oath is introduced or not, it is not permissible for the woman to marry another. And if she should marry, even if carnal intercourse has taken place, she should be separated from him, and forced by ecclesiastical order to return to the first, although some think otherwise and also judgment has been rendered in another way by certain of our predecessors.

The Form of Baptism1

[From fragments of the letter to (Pontius, the Bishop of Clermont?), of uncertain time]

398. Certainly if anyone immerses a child in water three times in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen, and he does not say: "I baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, Amen," the child is not baptized.

399. Let those concerning whom there is a doubt, whether or not they have been baptized, be baptized after these words have first been uttered: "If you are baptized I do not baptize you; if you are not yet baptized, I baptize you, etc."

LATERAN COUNCIL III 1179

Ecumenical XI (against the Albigenses)

Simony2

400. Chap. 10. Let monks not be received in the monastery at a price. . . . If anyone, however, on being solicited gives anything for his reception, let him not advance to sacred orders. Let him, however, who accepts (a price) be punished by the taking away of his office.3

Heresies that Must be Avoided4

401. Chap. 27. As Blessed Leo5 says: "Although ecclesiastical discipline, content with sacerdotal judgment, does not employ bloody punishments, it is nevertheless helped by the constitutions of Catholic rulers, so that

  1. CIC Decr. Greg. III, 42, 1 and 2: Frdbg II 644; Rcht II 619; Jf 14200. ↩

  2. Msi XXII 224 B; Jf post 13331; Hrd VI, II 1678 C; cf. Hfl V 713 ff.; Bar(Th) ad 1179 n. 1 ff. (19, 472 a ff.). ↩

  3. Thus also Urban II in the Synod of Melfi 1089, c. 7 [Msi XX 723 C]. ↩

  4. Msi XXII 231 E f.; Hrd VI, II 1683 D f. ↩

  5. Letter to Turibius, Proem. [MS 54, 680 A]. ↩