What issues was the Fifth Lateran Council meant to address?

The Fifth Lateran Council (1512–1517) was primarily convened by Pope Julius II to address the following issues:

• Opposition to the Conciliar Movement: The council was specifically called to nullify the efforts of a group of rebellious cardinals who had summoned a rival council at Pisa. These rebels sought to revive conciliarism, the belief that a general church council held authority superior to the pope and possessed the power to depose him.12
• Church Reform: Reform was a chief concern of the council. It aimed to address various administrative and moral issues within the church, including the restoration of peace among warring Christian rulers and the establishment of a new concordat with France to replace the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges.1
• Dogmatic Affirmations: In its decrees, the council formally affirmed the immortality of the soul and explicitly repudiated the declarations of the earlier Councils of Constance and Basel that had asserted the superiority of councils over the papacy.1

While the council debated these principal issues, it lacked the urgency and direction required to implement the sweeping reforms the church needed on the eve of the Protestant Reformation.2