Marriage within seven degrees was not allowed until the Fourth Lateran Council reduced the forbidden degrees to four. |
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When Francesco Borromini came to restore the nave of the Lateran basilica during the pontificate of Innocent X, subsidiary altars again had no role to play. |
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The Second Lateran Council seems to have enacted the first written law making sacred orders a diriment impediment to marriage for the universal Church. |
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Innocent III and the Fourth Lateran Council helped maintain the church in Europe. |
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Charlemagne also desired for the chapel to compete with the Lateran Palace, both in quality and authority. |
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Italy's concordat with the Vatican in 1984, revising the Lateran Treaties, abrogated the article whereby Italy recognises Papal titles. |
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According to this legend, Constantine was soon baptized, and began the construction of a church in the Lateran Palace. |
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Until the time of the Avignon Papacy, the residence of the pope was the Lateran Palace, donated by the Roman emperor Constantine the Great. |
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The resulting Roman Question was resolved with the rise of the modern state under the 1929 Lateran treaties between Italy and the Holy See. |
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The Lateran Palace, on the opposite side of Rome was their habitual residence for about a thousand years. |
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This grand approach was constructed by Benito Mussolini after the conclusion of the Lateran Treaty. |
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In 1215, the Fourth Council of the Lateran affirmed the use of the inquisitional system. |
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This ended in 1929, when the Lateran Treaty recognized Vatican City as a mini-state and the Pope as its sovereign. |
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John Lateran, and his official residence is the Apostolic Palace. |
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Vatican City State, created in 1929 by the Lateran Pacts, provides the Holy See with a temporal jurisdiction and independence within a small territory. |
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During and after the Fourth Lateran Council, Innocent III proclaimed that all tithes to the Church should take precedence over any taxes imposed by a state. |
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Anyone who loses Vatican citizenship and does not possess other citizenship automatically becomes an Italian citizen as provided in the Lateran Treaty. |
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