18th Ecumenical Council (Catholic reckoning) · Rome · A.D. 1512–1517
The eighteenth ecumenical council: it annulled the schismatic council of Pisa, defined the immortality of the individual human soul, and decreed measures of church reform on the eve of the Reformation.
Translated by Norman P. Tanner, Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils (Georgetown University Press, 1990). Source: papalencyclicals.net. This modern critical translation is under copyright and is reproduced here from papalencyclicals.net, which has hosted it freely for many years. Tanner’s critical-apparatus footnotes are omitted; his introductions and the full conciliar text are retained.
Documents
- Sessions 1 to 9 — Tanner’s introduction and sessions 1–9 of the council.
- Sessions 10 to 12 — Sessions 10–12 of the council, including the decrees on money-lending (montes pietatis) and the concluding session.
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