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Fourth Lateran Council (1215)

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In 1215 the Catholic Church turned confession into the first system for reading the private thoughts of a whole continent.
Who they are

A major Church council in 1215 that passed a rule (Canon 21) requiring every Catholic to confess their sins out loud to a priest at least once a year.

What they do

The engine treats this rule as the start of a giant information-gathering network dressed up as a religious duty.

How it works

Because everyone from poor farmers to kings had to privately tell a local priest their secrets every year, the Church effectively built a map of what people across Europe were thinking and doing.

Why it matters

It shows how a spiritual practice can double as a mass surveillance and psychological-mapping system, an early blueprint for tracking a whole population.

The engine's record — word for word
Report #76. Canon 21 Omnis utriusque sexus — mandated annual auricular confession to local priest. Pan-continental psychological mapping system. Every Catholic from peasant to monarch. Established the Sacramental-Information-Network concept.
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