In 1215, the church decreed that a "licit" marriage must take place in church.
After the council adopted seven church reform decrees, leaving their execution to Martin, he concluded concordats on other points with the principal countries involved, chiefly methods of taxation and some modifications in favour of national demands for the reform of abuses in the papacy's central bureaucracy.
The church so decreed in 1616.
The nuns are pushing back a bit, but it's hard, since the church has decreed that women can't be adversarial to men.
But once such a child was properly baptized, whether prudently or not, the same church law decreed that he or she must not be raised by the Jewish parents but by Catholics -- and in the Papal States of 1858, church law was also civil law.
In 16th-century England, with Henry VIII's establishment of the Anglican church, it was decreed that the rood and everything else above the rood beam had to be removed.
During the Holocaust, bureaucrats drew up decrees, churches provided evidence of Aryan descent, railroad operators drove victims to concentration camps.
In 1149 the Crusaders, who had conquered Gaza in 1100, built a cathedral dedicated to John the Baptist atop the ruins of the church upon a decree by Baldwin III of Jerusalem.
He added to the body of church law the canons (decrees) of his predecessor, Clement V, and many of his own canons were later added.
This work is a collection of conciliar decrees and church canons, most of which he culled from numerous ninth and tenth-century Carolingian works.
