Council of Constance, 1414-1418

582. 2. In the same sacrament the accidents of the bread do not remain without a subject.

583. 3. In the same sacrament Christ is not identically and really with His own bodily presence.

584. 4. If a bishop or priest is living in mortal sin, he does not ordain, nor consecrate, nor perform, nor baptize.

585. 5. It is not established in the Gospel that Christ arranged the Mass.

586. 6. God ought to obey the devil.

587. 7. If man is duly contrite, every exterior confession on his part is superfluous and useless.

588. 8. If the pope is foreknown and evil, and consequently a member of the devil, he does not have power over the faithful given to him by anyone, unless perchance by Caesar.

589. 9. After Urban VI no one should be received as pope, unless he live according to the customs of the Greeks under their laws.

590. 10. It is contrary to Sacred Scripture that ecclesiastical men have possessions.

591. 11. No prelate should excommunicate anyone, unless first he knows that he has been excommunicated by God; and he who so excommunicates becomes, as a result of this, a heretic or excommunicated.

592. 12. A prelate excommunicating a cleric who has appealed to the king, or to a council of the kingdom, by that very act is a traitor of the king and the kingdom.

593. 13. Those who cease to preach or to hear the word of God because of the excommunication of men, are themselves excommunicated, and in the judgment of God they will be considered traitors of Christ.

594. 14. It is permissible for any deacon or priest to preach the word of God without the authority of the Apostolic See or a Catholic bishop.

595. 15. No one is a civil master, no one a prelate, no one a bishop, as long as he is in mortal sin.

596. 16. Temporal rulers can at their will take away temporal goods from the Church, when those who have possessions habitually offend, that is, offend by habit, not only by an act.

597. 17. People can at their will correct masters who offend.

598. 18. The tithes are pure alms and parishioners can take these away at will because of the sins of their prelates.

599. 19. Special prayers applied to one person by prelates or religious are not of more benefit to that person than general (prayers), all other things being equal.

600. 20. One bringing alms to the Brothers is excommunicated by that very thing.

601. 21. If anyone enters any private religious community of any kind, of