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  1 Intro      |             Lateran residence on 10 May 1512, at which session an
  2 Intro,    1|                      SESSION 1 - 10 May 1512 ~[The bull convoking
  3 Intro,    2|                      SESSION 2 - 17 May 1512 ~[The quasi-council
  4 Intro,    2|          peace, those howling dogs, may be silenced and Christians
  5 Intro,    2|             silenced and Christians may be able to keep themselves
  6 Intro,    2|         prelates, and so that those may be awaited who live beyond
  7 Intro,    3|         this sacred Lateran council may be brought to a fruitful
  8 Intro,    3|           discussion in the council may proceed to the praise of
  9 Intro,    4|         council, in order that they may be duly carried out. ~Moreover,
 10 Intro,    4|         them, of whatever rank they may be, even royal, who approve
 11 Intro,    4|              of whatever sense they may be -- which things we wish
 12 Intro,    4|           as well as other business may be carried out in due season,
 13 Intro,    4|            their journey to attend) may be able to arrive without
 14 Intro,    5|      pastoral supremacy, so that he may govern the holy, Roman,
 15 Intro,    5|    sincerity of heart and deeds and may strive after the progress
 16 Intro,    5|             order that the faithful may look upon him as a mirror
 17 Intro,    5|            right and canonical way, may undertake the steering of
 18 Intro,    5|             the barque of Peter and may be, once established in
 19 Intro,    5|            the rest of the faithful may receive instruction on good
 20 Intro,    5|            seriousness of the case, may be approved and renewed
 21 Intro,    5|             so approved and renewed may be communicated, so that
 22 Intro,    5|           that if it happens (which may God avert in his mercy and
 23 Intro,    5|         rank, quality or order they may have been, even patriarchal
 24 Intro,    5|       justice or elsewhere, and all may lawfully withdraw from them
 25 Intro,    5|            the person thus elected, may join with the other cardinals,
 26 Intro,    5|     cardinals are not willing, they may freely and canonically proceed
 27 Intro,    5|          current constitution. They may announce and call together
 28 Intro,    5|           regulation and limitation may be brought to the notice
 29 Intro,    6|         unity and unsullied charity may abide in the church; the
 30 Intro,    6|           the flock committed to us may go forward along the right
 31 Intro,    6|           faithful have been saved, may be more widely spread, after
 32 Intro,    6|           general and settled peace may be arranged between christian
 33 Intro,    6|       enemies of the catholic faith may be carried out and may achieve (
 34 Intro,    6|        faith may be carried out and may achieve (with the favour
 35 Intro,    6|            so very useful a council may not be held back in any
 36 Intro,    6|          condition or nobility they may be, ecclesiastical or secular,
 37 Intro,    6|        censures and penalties which may have been promulgated in
 38 Intro,    6|             clauses, and which they may in general have incurred.
 39 Intro,    6|         session shall be held on 23 May next. Let nobody therefore . . .
 40 Intro,    8|        urgently on the faithful, we may exercise, like the Samaritan
 41 Intro,    8|             that rebuke of Jeremiah may be cast at us: Is there
 42 Intro,    8|          other public institutions, may devote themselves to the
 43 Intro,    8|         sweat over such studies, he may do so only if at the same
 44 Intro,    8|             that the Lord's priests may find the means, in these
 45 Intro,    8|             in order that these men may lay aside their arms, we
 46 Intro,    8|           in order that our legates may be able to take up the task
 47 Intro,    8|    appropriate remedy by which they may recognise the errors to
 48 Intro,    8|             long been in thrall and may be led back, with God's
 49 Intro,    8|         this sacred Lateran council may be brought to the completion
 50 Intro,    9|                       SESSION 9 - 5 May 1514 ~
 51 Intro,    9|      enemies of the christian faith may be possible] ~Leo, bishop,
 52 Intro,    9|             have been set aside, we may be able to bring together
 53 Intro,    9|      pre-eminence or condition they may be, under threat of the
 54 Intro,    9|      enemies of the christian faith may be brought about and be
 55 Intro,    9|          condition or nobility they may be, ecclesiastical and secular,
 56 Intro,    9|          therefrom as often as they may wish and also after four
 57 Intro,    9|          whatever exalted rank they may be, including imperial,
 58 Intro,    9|       condition or distinction they may be, to give permission,
 59 Intro,    9|          and very necessary council may not be frustrated for any
 60 Intro,    9|             that those coming to it may be able to live in peace
 61 Intro,    9|            so that suitable persons may be advanced with greater
 62 Intro,    9|        cardinals in order that they may be able to learn at first
 63 Intro,    9|             that no bishop or abbot may be deprived of his rank
 64 Intro,    9|          has been fully proved; nor may any prelate be transferred
 65 Intro,    9|         order that sounder measures may be taken to secure these
 66 Intro,    9|          fitting). Such monasteries may be given in commendam, when
 67 Intro,    9|       dignity, honour and high rank may be, even if they enjoy the
 68 Intro,    9|       decree and rule that pensions may never be reserved from the
 69 Intro,    9|             benefices to which they may have a reserve claim . ~
 70 Intro,    9|      monasteries or military orders may not be detached or separated
 71 Intro,    9|             ordinaries so that they may be provided with persons
 72 Intro,    9|           have not been disposed of may be reckoned as vacant and
 73 Intro,    9|           be reckoned as vacant and may freely be applied for as
 74 Intro,    9|             or donate as much as he may in conscience decide. It
 75 Intro,    9|         generosity in these matters may bring wrong to others and
 76 Intro,    9|           bring wrong to others and may cause scandal. Consequently
 77 Intro,    9|          benefices thus made vacant may be freely sought from the
 78 Intro,    9|           and future Roman pontiffs may wear red garments, in keeping
 79 Intro,    9|         under the title of legates, may not administer them through
 80 Intro,    9|             octave, however, masses may be celebrated as usual .
 81 Intro,    9|           which could come to light may be removed and a greater
 82 Intro,    9|            votes in the holy senate may exist, and that, as is right,
 83 Intro,    9|           and that, as is right, it may be lawful for each cardinal
 84 Intro,    9|           lay down that no cardinal may reveal in writing or by
 85 Intro,    9|          contrary to good morals or may lead to a lack of reverence . ~
 86 Intro,    9|         indulgence of ten years and may keep a third of the fine
 87 Intro,    9|           that clerics, especially, may live in continence and chastity
 88 Intro,    9|        disease of abominable simony may be driven out for ever not
 89 Intro,    9|       impediment has come to an end may not receive the revenues
 90 Intro,    9|           holding several benefices may be repeated as often as
 91 Intro,    9|             to them, wherever these may be found, may be seized
 92 Intro,    9|        wherever these may be found, may be seized and held if, after
 93 Intro,    9|        whatever race or nation they may be, as well as heretics
 94 Intro,   10|                      SESSION 10 - 4 May 1515 ~
 95 Intro,   10|           harmony with good customs may be not only clarified in
 96 Intro,   10|          said organisations -- they may lawfully ask and receive,
 97 Intro,   10|            judges of exempt persons may happen to reside, or if
 98 Intro,   10|             out, then, so that they may be penalised for their fault,
 99 Intro,   10|           and criminous persons and may personally examine the witnesses.
100 Intro,   10|            ordinaries so that these may lawfully proceed further,
101 Intro,   10|       inquiry or the accusation and may terminate the case according
102 Intro,   10|            ordinaries. Thus, nobody may appeal prior to a definitive
103 Intro,   10|            definitive sentence, nor may an appeal (if made) be in
104 Intro,   10|        interlocutory judgment which may have the force of a definitive
105 Intro,   10|         therefore, in order that we may be able to give an honest
106 Intro,   10|          excellence or dignity they may be, and we command them
107 Intro,   10|           in order that corruptions may be corrected and those neglecting
108 Intro,   10|       neglecting to do these things may be subjected to canonical
109 Intro,   10|         bishops, in order that they may be able to render to God
110 Intro,   10|            especially no religious, may be provided to cathedral
111 Intro,   10|           business of book-printing may go ahead with greater satisfaction
112 Intro,   10|             all future time, no one may dare to print or have printed
113 Intro,   10|         council. In order that they may not be able to make this
114 Intro,   10|           Roman curia, so that they may be able to bring forward
115 Intro,   10|        forward the views which they may wish to present in defence
116 Intro,   10|          order that their obstinacy may be overcome, we once again,
117 Intro,   11|             and so mortal a disease may be thoroughly wiped out
118 Intro,   11|           and that its consequences may be so completely swept away
119 Intro,   11|           privilege or otherwise -- may be admitted to carry out
120 Intro,   11|             them for the Lord, they may deserve to gain interest
121 Intro,   11|          the matter with them, they may grant permission if this
122 Intro,   11|      pontiff . In order that others may not be urged on by their
123 Intro,   11|          permanent force and effect may be given to the things which
124 Intro,   11|       council, so that these things may persist with greater steadiness
125 Intro,   11|           statutes and regulations, may rest together in the sweetness
126 Intro,   11|        peace, quiet and delight and may persevere more fervently
127 Intro,   11|          charity and unbroken peace may abide in the mystical body,
128 Intro,   11|         that any dissenting members may be re-grafted into the body
129 Intro,   11|           surety so that observance may be firmer and abolition
130 Intro,   11|        expressed in their own days, may have seemed to have tolerated
131 Intro,   11|              rank or condition they may be, including cardinals
132 Intro,   11|            of parts of it, and they may not permit or order these
133 Intro,   11|             to the contrary (though may they not!), are immediate
134 Intro,   11|             or verbal formulae they may have been granted. Except
135 Intro,   11|          and statutes, however they may have been published and
136 Intro,   11|              of whatever tenor they may be, by means of which, because
137 Intro,   11|          doctrine and actions, they may foster more abundant fruits
138 Intro,   11|        superiors and other prelates may visit the parish churches
139 Intro,   11|             official visitors. They may punish those responsible
140 Intro,   11|             of this kind, then they may freely punish them as being
141 Intro,   11|          who are not excommunicated may celebrate masses out of
142 Intro,   11|              The friars in question may be examined by the same
143 Intro,   11|          manimposed penalties. They may not administer the eucharist
144 Intro,   11| communicated by the chapter. Friars may not enter parishes bearing
145 Intro,   11|             by the ordinaries. They may not, however, be ordained
146 Intro,   11|            another bishop; and they may not arrange for the first
147 Intro,   11|       reverence and urgency. Friars may not bless a bride and bridegroom
148 Intro,   11|          friars and secular clerics may not ring the bells of their
149 Intro,   11|             standing or status they may be, that they are bound
150 Intro,   11|           to all Christ's faithful, may move forward from strength
151 Intro,   12|            boldness of these people may be restrained before it
152 Intro,   12|  metropolitan churches so that they may no longer be without their
153 Intro,   12|       efforts, by means of which we may be able to render the Lord'
154 Intro,   12|     spiritual but also temporal, we may be able, under God's guidance
155 Intro,   12|             that the peace achieved may endure . ~It only remains,
156 Intro,   12|      almighty God that the campaign may have a happy outcome. We
157 Intro,   12|           of the Lord's right hand, may not be impeded by some interruption
158 Intro,   12|       lasted for nearly five years, may not be further wearied by
159 Intro,   12|           expenses and so that they may be able to visit and bring
160 Intro,   12|       countries. In order that they may be able to go back with