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or illicit must be considered erroneous, and those pertinaciously asserting the opposite of the above mentioned must be avoided as heretics and should be severely punished, either by the local diocesan officials or by the inquisitors of heretical depravity.

Session xv (July 6, 1415)

Errors of John Hus1

[Condemned in the Council and by the above mentioned Bulls in 1418]

627. 1. One and only is the holy universal Church which is the aggregate of the predestined.

628. 2. Paul never was a member of the devil, although he did certain acts similar to the acts of those who malign the Church.

629. 3. The foreknown are not parts of the Church, since no part of it finally will fall away from it, because the charity of predestination which binds it will not fall away.

630. 4. Two natures, divinity and humanity, are one Christ.2

631. 5. The foreknown, although at one time he is in grace according to the present justice, yet is never a part of the holy Church; and the predestined always remains a member of the Church, although at times he may fall away from additional grace, but not from the grace of predestination.

632. 6. Assuming the Church as the convocation of the predestined, whether they were in grace or not according to the present justice, in that way the Church is an article of faith.

633. 7. Peter is not nor ever was the head of the Holy Catholic Church.

634. 8. Priests living criminally in any manner whatsoever, defile the power of the priesthood, and as unfaithful sons they think unfaithfully regarding the seven sacraments of the Church, the keys, the duties, the censures, customs, ceremonies, and sacred affairs of the Church, its veneration of relics, indulgences, and orders.

635. 9. The papal dignity has sprung up from Caesar, and the perfection and institution of the pope have emanated from the power of Caesar.

636. 10. No one without revelation would have asserted reasonably regarding himself or anyone else that he was the head of a particular church, nor is the Roman Pontiff the head of a particular Roman Church.

637. 11. It is not necessary to believe that the one whosoever is the Roman

  1. Msi XXVII 1209 C ff. (754 A ff., 794 B ff.); coll. Rcht II, 133 f.; Hrd VIII 911 D ff. (410 C ff., 457 C ff.); BR(T) 4, 671 a ff.; MBR 1, 291 a ff.; Bar(Th) ad 1415 n. 41 (27, 409 a ff.); cf. Hfl VII 193 ff.—Cf. n. 659 ff. ↩

  2. Cf. Hfl VII 201. ↩