Note: The proprietor of that website is an aggressive homosexual ideologue. I've run into him before. Just a warning. Take what you see there with several grains of salt. He has an agenda, to put it mildly.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/lateran4.aspNote: The proprietor of that website is an aggressive homosexual ideologue. I've run into him before. Just a warning. Take what you see there with several grains of salt. He has an agenda, to put it mildly.
Thanks for the warning: in this case the document cited is a historical one, one which varies in translation. The top Google result for Twelfth Ecumenical Council: Lateran IV 1215 is https://www.papalencyclicals.net/councils/ecum12-2.htm#3 and which seems to me to use less forceful terms, such as,
"in so far as they can, to expel...," and "Catholics who take the cross and gird themselves up for the expulsion of heretics shall enjoy the same indulgence, and be strengthened by the same holy privilege, as is granted to those who go to the aid of the holy Land,"vs.
"to the best of their ability to exterminate..." and "Catholics who have girded themselves with the cross for the extermination of the heretics, shall enjoy the indulgences and privileges granted to those who go in defense of the Holy Land,"as in https://www.intratext.com/IXT/ENG0431/_P3.HTM, which corresponds to what is said to be the Original Electronic Text at the Internet Medieval Sourcebook web site = http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/lateran4.html
What the original (if it exists) Latin best corresponds to I know not.