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THE CANONS AND DECREES
OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT

THEODORE ALOIS BUCKLEY B.A.

WITH A SUPPLEMENT

CONTAINING THE CONDEMNATIONS OF THE EARLY REFORMERS, AND OTHER MATTERS RELATING TO THE COUNCIL

LITERALLY TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY THEODORE ALOIS BUCKLEY, B.A., OF CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD

LONDON: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND CO., SOHO SQUARE 1851

CONTENTS

Title Page: THE CANONS AND DECREES OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT

THE CANONS AND DECREES OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT

INDEX OF THE SESSIONS, DECREES, CHAPTERS, AND SUMMARIES OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT

BULL OF INDICTION OF THE SACRED Å’CUMENICAL AND GENERAL COUNCIL OF TRENT

SESSION THE FIRST OF THE Å’CUMENICAL AND GENERAL COUNCIL OF TRENT

DECREE TOUCHING THE OPENING OF THE COUNCIL

SESSION THE SECOND

DECREE TOUCHING THE MANNER OF LIVING, AND OTHER MATTERS TO BE OBSERVED, DURING THE COUNCIL

SESSION THE THIRD

DECREE TOUCHING THE SYMBOL OF FAITH

SESSION THE FOURTH

DECREE CONCERNING THE CANONICAL SCRIPTURES

DECREE CONCERNING THE EDITION AND THE USE OF THE SACRED BOOKS

SESSION THE FIFTH

DECREE CONCERNING ORIGINAL SIN

DECREE CONCERNING REFORMATION

SESSION THE SIXTH

DECREE CONCERNING JUSTIFICATION

ON JUSTIFICATION

DECREE TOUCHING REFORMATION

SESSION THE SEVENTH

DECREE CONCERNING THE SACRAMENTS

TOUCHING THE SACRAMENTS IN GENERAL

TOUCHING BAPTISM

TOUCHING CONFIRMATION

DECREE CONCERNING REFORMATION

BULL OF FACULTY TO TRANSFER THE COUNCIL

SESSION THE EIGHTH

DECREE CONCERNING THE TRANSLATION OF THE COUNCIL

SESSION THE NINTH

SESSION THE TENTH

BULL FOR THE RESUMPTION OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT, UNDER THE SOVEREIGN PONTIFF JULIUS III

SESSION THE ELEVENTH OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT

DECEREE TOUCHING RESUMING THE COUNCIL

SESSION THE TWELFTH

SESSION THE THIRTEENTH

DECREE TOUCHING THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT OF THE EUCHARIST

CONCERNING THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT OF THE EUCHARIST

DECREE TOUCHING BEFORMATION

DECREE FOR PROROGUING THE DEFINITION OF FOUR ARTICLES TOUCHING THE SACRAMENT OF THE EUCHARIST, AND FOR GIVING A SAFE-CONDUCT TO PROTESTANTS

SAFE-CONDUCT GRANTED TO THE PROTESTANTS

SESSION THE FOURTEENTH

DOCTRINE TOUCHING THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENTS OF PENANCE AND EXTREME UNCTION

ON THE SACRAMENT OF EXTREME UNCTION

ON THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT OF PENANCE

ON THE SACRAMENT OF EXTREME UNCTION

DECREE TOUCHING REFORMATION

SESSION THE FIFTEENTH

DECREE FOR PROROGUING THE SESSION

SAFE-CONDUCT GIVEN TO THE PROTESTANTS

SESSION THE SIXTEENTH

BULL FOR THE CELEBRATION OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT, UNDER THE SOVEREIGN PONTIFF PIUS IV

SESSION THE SEVENTEENTH

DECREE FOR CELEBRATING THE COUNCIL

SESSION THE EIGHTEENTH

DECREE TOUCHING THE CHOICE OF BOOKS; AND FOR INVITING ALL MEN ON THE PUBLIC FAITH TO THE COUNCIL

SAFE-CONDUCT GRANTED TO THE GERMAN NATION

EXTENSION [OF THE SAFE-CONDUCT] TO OTHER NATIONS

SESSION THE NINETEENTH

SESSION THE TWENTIETH

SESSION THE TWENTY-FIRST

ON COMMUNION UNDER BOTH SPECIES, AND ON THE COMMUNION OF INFANTS

DECREE CONCERNING REFORMATION

SESSION THE TWENTY-SECOND

DOCTRINE TOUCHING THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS

TOUCHING THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS

DECREE TOUCHING THE THINGS TO BE OBSERVED AND TO BE AVOIDED IN THE CELEBRATION OF THE MASS

DECREE CONCERNING REFORMATION

DECREE TOUCHING THE PETITION FOR THE CONCESSION OF THE CHALICE

SESSION THE TWENTY-THIRD

THE TRUE AND CATHOLIC DOCTRINE, TOUCHING THE SACRAMENT OF ORDERS, IN CONDEMNATION OF THE ERRORS OF OUR TIME, DECREED AND PUBLISHED BY THE HOLY SYNOD OF TRENT, IN THE SEVENTH SESSION

ON THE SACRAMENT OF ORDERS

DECREE CONCERNING REFORMATION

SESSION THE TWENTY-FOURTH

DOCTRINE TOUCHING THE SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY

TOUCHING THE SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY

DECREE TOUCHING THE REFORMATION OF MARRIAGE

DECREE CONCERNING REFORMATION

SESSION THE TWENTY-FIFTH

DECREE TOUCHING PURGATORY

TOUCHING THE INVOCATION, VENERATION, AND ON RELICS OF SAINTS, AND SACRED IMAGES

CONCERNING REGULARS AND NUNS

DECREE CONCERNING REFORMATION

DECREE FOR CONTINUING THE SESSION ON THE FOLLOWING DAY

CONTINUATION OF THE SESSION

DECREE CONCERNING INDULGENCES

ON CHOICE OF FOOD; ON FASTS, AND FESTIVAL DAYS

ON THE INDEX OF BOOKS, AND THE CATECHISM, BREVIARY, AND MISSAL

ON THE PLACE OF AMBASSADORS

ON RECEIVING AND OBSERVING THE DECREES OF THE COUNCIL

ON RECITING, IN SESSION, THE DECREES OF THE COUNCIL UNDER PAUL III. AND JULIUS III

ON THE CLOSE OF THE COUNCIL, AND ON SUING FOR CONFIRMATION FROM OUR MOST HOLY LORD

ACCLAMATIONS OF THE FATHERS AT THE CLOSE OF THE COUNCIL

DISCOURSE DELIVERED AT THE NINTH AND LAST SESSION OF THE SACRED COUNCIL OF TRENT

HEREIN ARE SUMMARILY RECOUNTED ALL THE MATTERS DEFINED IN THE COUNCIL OF TRENT WHICH APPERTAIN UNTO PIOUSLY BELIEVING AND LIVING WELL

COMPRISING VARIOUS MATTERS REGARDIND THE COUNCIL OF TRENT

CONFIRMATION OF THE COUNCIL

BULL OF OUR MOST HOLY LORD PIUS FOURTH, BY THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD POPE, TOUCHING THE CONFIRMATION OF THE Å’CUMENICAL (AND) GENERAL COUNCIL OF TRENT

THE BULL OF OUR SACRED LORD PIUS, BY DIVINE PROVIDENCE FOURTH POPE

TOUCHING THE DECLARATION OF THE TIME TO OBSERVE THE DECREES OF THE SACRED Å’CUMENICAL AND GENERAL COUNCIL OF TRENT

MOTUS PROPRIUS OF OUR HOLY LORD PIUS, BY DIVINE PROVIDENCE FOURTH POPE

EIGHT CARDINALS ARE DEPUTED TO ENFORCE THE OBSERVANCE OF THE CONSTITUTIONS AND ORDINANCES SET FORTH BY PIUS IV., AS ALSO THE DECREES OF THE SACRED Å’CUMENICAL AND GENERAL COUNCIL OF TRENT

THE BULL OF OUR HOLY LORD, THE LORD PIUS, BY DIVINE PROVIDENCE FOURTH POPE

TOUCHING THE FORM OF THE OATH OF THE PROFESSION OF FAITH

BULL OF OUR HOLY LORD PIUS IV., BY DIVINE PROVIDENCE POPE

THE PRIVILEGES, EXEMPTIONS, IMMUNITIES, FACULTIES, DISPENSATIONS, CONSERVATORIES, INDULTS, ETC., TO WHAT PLACES AND PERSONS SOEVER CONCEDED, IN THOSE PARTICULARS WHEREIN THEY ARE AT VARIANCE WITH THE STATUTES AND DECREES OF THE HOLY COUNCIL OF TRENT, ARE REVOKED

CONCERNING PROHIBITED BOOKS

TEN RULES DRAWN UP BY THE FATHERS SELECTED BY THE SYNOD OF TRENT AND APPROVED BY POPE PIUS IV

THE BULL OF OUR HOLY LORD PIUS IV., BY DIVINE PROVIDENCE POPE

APPROBATION OF THE INDEX OF PROHIBITED BOOKS, WITH THE RULES CONFIRMED BY THE FATHERS DEPUTED BY THE HOLY COUNCIL OF TRENT, AND THE PROHIBITION TO KEEP OR READ THESE BOOKS

THE CONSTITUTIONS TAKEN FROM THE ANCIENT LAW, AND NOTICED BY THE COUNCIL OF TRENT OR SPECIALLY CHANGED BY IT

COUNCIL OF CARTHAGE

COUNCIL OF CHALCEDON

ALEXANDER III. IN THE COUNCIL OF LATERAN

ALEXANDER III. IN THE COUNCIL OF LATERAN

CLEMENT V. IN THE COUNCIL OF VIENNA

CLEMENT V. IN THE COUNCIL OF VIENNA

CLEMENT V. IN THE COUNCIL OF VIENNA

GREGORY X. AT THE COUNCIL OF LYONS

GREGORY X. IN THE COUNCIL OF LYONS

GREGORY X. IN THE COUNCIL OF LYONS

INNOCENT III. IN THE COUNCIL OF LATERAN

INNOCENT III. IN THE COUNCIL OF LATERAN

INNOCENT III. IN THE COUNCIL OF LATERAN

INNOCENT III. IN THE COUNCIL OF LATERAN

INNOCENT III. IN THE COUNCIL OF LATERAN

INNOCENT III. IN THE COUNCIL OF LATERAN

INNOCENT IV. IN THE COUNCIL OF LYONS

INNOCENT IV. IN THE COUNCIL OF LYONS

LEO X. IN THE COUNCIL OF LATERAN

APPENDIXÂ OF CERTAIN OTHER DOCUMENTS WHICH SEEM TO BE USEFUL TO CANDIDATES IN THEOLOGY

CONDEMNATION OF THE ERRORS OF WICKLIFF, HUS, AND LUTHER

CONDEMNED ARTICLES OF JOHN HUS, OF WHICH MENTION IS MADE ABOVE

CONDEMNATION OF THE ERRORS OF JANSENIUS

CONDEMNATION OF THE ERRORS OF PASCHASIUS QUESNELL

ON THE OBSCURATION OF TRUTHS IN THE CHURCH

ON THE POWER ATTRIBUTED TO THE COMMUNITY OF THE CHURCH TO BE COMMUNICATED THROUGH THIS TO THE PASTORS

ON THE DENOMINATION OF MINISTERIAL HEAD ATTRIBUTED TO THE ROMAN PONTIFF

ON THE POWER OF THE CHURCH AS TO CONSTITUTING AND ENFORCING EXTERNAL DISCIPLINE

RIGHTS GRANTED TO BISHOPS CONTRARY TO JUSTICE

RIGHT INCORRECTLY GRANTED TO PRIESTS OF INFERIOR ORDERS IN DECREES OF FAITH AND DISCIPLINE

CALUMNIES AGAINST SOME DECISIONS IN MATTER OF FAITH EMANATING FROM A CONSIDERALE NUMBER OF AGES

CONCERNING THE PEACE CALLED THAT OF CLEMENT IX

ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE BODY OF THE CHURCH

ON THE STATE OF INNOCENCE

ON IMMORTALITY VIEWED AS A NATURAL CONDITION OF MAN

ON THE CONDITION OF MAN IN A STATE OF NATURE

OF THE CONDITION OF MAN UNDER THE LAW

ON GRACE ENLIGHTENING AND EXCITING

OF FAITH AS THE FIRST GRACE

OF TWOFOLD LOVE

OF SERVILE FEAR

OF THE PUNISHMENT OF THOSE DYING WITH ORIGINAL SIN ALONE

OF THE SACRAMENTS, AND FIRST OF THE SACRAMENTAL FORM WITH THE CONDITION ANNEXED

OF PARTICIPATION OF THE VICTIM IN THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS

OF THE EFFICACY OF THE RITE OF CONSECRATION

OF THE APPLICATION OF THE FRUIT OF THE SACRIFICE

ON OBSERVING PROPER ORDER IN WORSHIP

OF THE ORDER OF PENANCE

OF THE PREVIOUS NECESSARY DISPOSITION FOR ADMITTING PENITENTS TO RECONCILIATION

OF THE AUTHORITY TO ABSOLVE

OF THE CONFESSION OF VENIAL SINS

OF THE RESERVATION OF CASES

OF SPONSALS AND MATRIMONY

OF THE OFFICES, EXERCISES, INSTITUTIONS RELATING TO RELIGIOUS WORSHIPâ€”AND FIRST OF ADORING THE HUMANITY OF CHRIST

OF THE ORDER PRESCRIBED IN PERFORMING PIOUS EXERCISES

ON THE MODE OF COMBINING THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE WITH THE VOICE OF THE CHURCH IN PUBLIC PRAYERS

OF THE READING OF THE SACRED SCRIPTURES

ON PUBLICLY READING PROSCRIBED BOOKS IN THE CHURCH

OF SACRED IMAGES

ON ECCLESIASTICAL COLLATIONS

REPROACHES AGAINST SOME PROPOSITIONS HITHERTO AGITATED IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS

ON THE THREE RULES LAID DOWN AS A FOUNDATION BY THE SYNOD FOR REFORM OF REGULARS

OF THE SYSTEM OR COMPLICATION OF ORDINATIONS DERIVED FROM THE RULES ADDUCED, AND INCLUDED IN THE EIGHT ARTICLES FOLLOWING FOR THE REFORMATION OF REGULARS

ALSO FOR THE REFORMATION OF NUNS

ON CONVENING A NATIONAL COUNCIL

PART OF THE ADDRESS DELIVERED IN THE SECRET CONSISTORY, ON THE 26TH DAY OF JUNE, 1805, BY OUR MOST HOLY LORD PIUS VII., BY DIVINE PROVIDENCE POPE

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