Council of Trent
Council of Trent: Session XXIII, On The Sacrament Of Order., Canon IV
Waterworth (1848), Hanover transcription; separate papal documents excluded
On The Sacrament Of Order., Canon IV
ON THE SACRAMENT OF ORDER.
CANON IV.--If any one saith, that, by sacred ordination, the Holy Ghost is not given; and that vainly therefore do the bishops say, Receive ye the Holy Ghost; or, that a character is not imprinted by that ordination; or, that he who has once been a priest, can again become a layman; let him be anathema.
Translation: J. Waterworth, The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent (1848), Hanover Historical Texts Project transcription (1995).
Source: Council of Trent: Session XXIII (Hanover Historical Texts Project)