Altitudo divini consilii (1 June 1537): the adaptation of canon law for indigenous converts

The day before the better-known declaration that the Indians were true men, Paul III wrote to all the bishops of the Indies to settle what missionaries should do: whether rite-less baptisms had been sins, which four ceremonies could not be dropped, which wife a polygamous convert kept, in what degrees of kinship converts might marry, and how many fasts and feast days bound them. The ordinary law of the Church, rewritten for the peoples of the Americas.