Talk:Fourth Council of the Lateran
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Would one assume that in this case incontenence is synomous with masturbation? Or were they really that concerned with priests wetting the bed? I don't know, so I don't want to edit.
Not so much masturbation as priest marriage, keeping of concubines, and sex in general. The Fourth Lateran Council took a big step towards actually enforcing priestly celibacy. I added "not being celibate" to clarify (feel free to change if you can think of a better way of phrasing it)
[edit] Seven Sacraments
I removed the line
Significantly, the Council clearly delineated the Seven Sacraments of the Catholic Church for the first time.
because I could not find such a delineation within the actual text of the canons of the Council (at least, not in the copy found at the Medieval Sourcebook website). Please correct if I am in error. Tpellman (talk) 15:43, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Jewish Moneylending
In Mark Cohen's Under Crescent and Cross, he reports that there was a fourth law pertaining to the Jews which forbade "heavy and immoderate usury" (pg 39). I didn't edit the article because I myself have not studied the council enough to know where this would be, however, Cohen credits Grayzel's The Church and the Jews page 307. edit: I realize that the list is not meant to be a full list of all canons, however I believe this particular one, if deemed to exist, is worthy of being here because of the contemporary view of Jews as moneylenders. Koolaidman (talk) 19:54, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
