Lateran Council
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The Fourth Lateran Council renewed it in 1215.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2018
But monastic influences at the turn of the millennium led to the adoption of a celibacy requirement at the First Lateran Council of 1123, and that tradition has held ever since.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2017
The Third Lateran Council in 1215 formally defined transubstantiation as the appropriate doctrine, thus beating out the Reformation by three hundred years.
From Time ● Apr. 29, 2013
In the early church, penitents commonly confessed their sins in public, but in 1215 the Fourth Lateran Council made regular private confession the norm for the church.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1102, however, it was declared that no married priest should celebrate mass, and in 1215 the Lateran Council definitely pronounced against marriage of priests.
From Women of England by Bartlett Burleigh James
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