The Consilium de Emendanda Ecclesia was a report commissioned by Pope Paul III on the abuses in the Catholic Church in 1536.
The commission appointed to review the abuses in the church was presided over by Gasparo Cardinal Contarini and consisted of eight additional cardinals: Girolamo Aleandro, Tommaso Badia, Giovanni Pietro Carafa (the later Pope Paul IV), Gregorio Cortese, Federigo Fregoso, Gianmatteo Giberti, Reginald Pole, and Jacopo Sadoleto.
It dealt mainly with the fiscal abuses of the papacy, the dangers of simony, and the need for laws not to be dispensed with by papal fiat.
Martin Luther published a German version, completed with sarcastic side margins.
The Consilium de emendanda ecclesia was never put into effect, although many of the proposed changes were implemented in later reforms.