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Together the council would address the problems taking place in the empire so as to
provide recommendations for solutions to these difficult obstacles plaguing the world. 82 The
council sought “to eradicate vices and to plant virtues, to correct faults and to reform morals, to
remove heresies and to strengthen faith, to settle discords and to establish peace, to get rid of
oppression and to foster liberty, to induce princes and Christian people to come to the aid and
succor of the holy Land…” 83 The council produced seventy constitutions, many becoming part
of Canon Law. 84
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Clement Rabb, OFM, The Twenty Ecumenical Councils of the Catholic Church, (MD: The Newman Press, 1959), 88.
Fourth Lateran Council, http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Councils/ecum12-2.htm, accessed, February 5, 2016,
n.1.
84
Hubert Jedin, Ecumenical Councils of the Catholic Church: An Historical Outline, (NY: Herder and Herder, Inc.,
1960), 78.
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