620 



KOMAtf CATHOLIC CHURCH. 



7. Women overstepping the enclosure of religious 

 houses of men and the superiors or others admitting 

 them. 



8. Those guilty of real Simony (Simonia Realis) 

 concerning any benefice whatsoever, and their accom- 

 plices. 



9. Those guilty of real confidential* Simony, in 

 regard to whatever benefice, and whatever may be 

 their dignity. 



10. Those committing an act of real Simony, with 

 a view to gain admission to a religious order. 



11. All those who fall under the censure of excom- 

 munication under the Constitution of St. Pius V., 

 Quam plenum, 2d January, 1554, by trafficking with 

 indulgences and other spiritual favors. 



12. Those who collect alms for Masses, increasing 

 the amount, and making a profit by having the 

 Masses said in places where the alms for saying the 

 same are customarily smaller. 



13. All those on whom the penalty of excommuni- 

 cation falls, under the Constitution of St. Pius V., 

 Admonet nos, 29th March, 1567 ; of Innocent IX., Qua 

 ab hoc sede, 4th November, 1591 ; of Clement VlIL. 

 Ad Romanipontiftcis curam, 26th June, 1592; and of 

 Alexander VII., Inter cceteras, 24th October. 1660, 

 concerning the alienation and infeudation or cities 

 and places belonging to the Holy Eoman Church. 



14. Keligious who may presume to administer to 

 any, whether of the laity or clergy, except in case of 

 necessity, the Sacrament of Extreme Unction, or of 

 the Eucharist, in viaticum, without the leave and li- 

 cense of the parish priest. 



15. Those, without the lawful permission, abstract- 

 ing relics from the holy cemeteries or catacombs of 

 Eome and its territory, and those lending them aid 

 or favor. 



16. Those who communicate with persons excom- 

 municated by name by the Pope in crtmine criminoso, 

 and lending them aid and favor. 



17. Ecclesiastics who knowingly and of their own 

 will communicate in dimnis with persons excommu- 

 nicated by name, by the Eoman Pontiff, and those 

 receiving them to the offices. 



EXCOMMUNICATIONS LAT^J 8ENTENTI2E, BESEBVED TO 

 BISHOPS OB OBDINABIE8. 



"We declare that they are subject to excommunica- 

 tion latce sententioe, reserved to Bishops or ordina- 

 ries: 



1. Clerics in holy orders, or regulars or nuns pre- 

 suming to contract marriage after the solemn vow of 

 chastity, as well as those presuming to contract mar- 

 riage with any of the aforesaid persons. 



2. Those who procure abortions (effectu sequuto}. 



3. Those who knowingly make use of forged Apos- 

 tolic letters, or who cooperate in this sin. 



EXCOMMUNICATIONS LAT^! 8ENTENTIJG (NOT BE- 

 SEBVED). 



"We declare that they are subject to excommunica- 

 tion latce sententifB (not reserved) : 



1. "Who order and constrain that ecclesiastical sep- 

 ulture be given to notorious heretics, or to persons 

 under excommunication or interdict by name. 



2. Those who obstruct or intimidate inquisitors, 

 informers, witnesses, and other ministers of the holy 

 office ; those who abstract or burn the writings of the 

 said sacred tribunal, or lend to any, so doing, aid, 

 counsel, or favor. 



_ 3. Those alienating or presuming to receive eccle- 

 siastical possessions without apostolic license accord- 

 ing to the form Extravagant ambitiosce, de reb. eccl. 

 non alienandis. 



4. Those who, by negligence or culpable omission, 

 fail to denounce within a month a confessor or priest 



* Realis si pactum ex utraque parte adimpleatur. 



Accedit Simonia confldentialis, quae fit quolihet pacto. 

 sen confidential circa electionem ve praesentationem ad 

 beneficia, ad munera ecclesiastica, etc. 



by whom they may have been instigated ad turpia, 

 in any of the cases expressed by our predecessors. 

 Gregory XV., Constit. Univer&i, August 20,1622, and 

 Benedict XIV., Constit. Sacramentum Panitentice, 

 June 1, 1741. 



Besides these already enumerated we declare simi- 

 larly excommunicated, those who were excommuni- 

 cated by the Council of Trent, whether with abso- 

 lution reserved to the Sovereign Pontiff, or to the 

 Ordinary, or without reserve, excepting the penalty 

 of anathema established in the decree, Sess. IV., 2)e 

 editione et usu sacrorum librorum, to which we desire 

 that they shall only be subject who, without the ap- 

 probation of the Ordinary, print, or cause to be 

 printed, books concerning sacred things. 



SUSPENSIONS LATJE SENTENTIJG BESEBVED TO THE 

 SOVEBEIQN PONTIFF. 



Chapters and convents, with churches and monas- 

 teries, incur suspension ipso facto, at the will of the 

 Holy See, from the receipts of their benefices, and all 

 others who receive Bishops or Prelates to the govern- 

 ment, or administration of one or the other, before 

 these aforesaid Bishops have produced the Apostolic 

 Letters which nominated them. 



2. They incur ipso jure the three years' suspension 

 from collation of Orders who ordain any one without 

 title of benefice or patrimony, upon the agreement 

 that after ordination they shall not apply to them for 

 maintenance. 



3. They incur ipso jure suspension of one year from 

 the administration of Orders who ordain the subject 

 of another, even under pretext of a benefice about to 

 be conferred, or already conferred, but not sufficient 

 in amount without Letters dismissory from his own 

 Bishop ; or even a subject of his own who has been 

 living out of his jurisdiction for a considerable 

 time, so that he might there have contracted a ca- 

 nonical impediment, without letters of testimonial 

 from the Ordinary of the place in which he has been 

 living. 



4. Those incur suspension ipso jure for a year from 

 collation of Orders who shall have conferred any 

 sacred Order (except the case of legitimate privilege), 

 without title of benefice or patrimony to an ecclesias- 

 tic living in any congregation in which no solemn 

 profession is made, or to a religious not yet professed. 



5. Eeligious expelled from their monasteries and 

 living extra religionem incur ipso jure perpetual sus- 

 pension from Orders. 



6. They incur ipso jure suspension from Orders 

 received who presume to receive such Orders from a 

 person excommunicated or suspended, interdicted, or 

 denounced by name ; or from a notorious heretic or 

 schismatic. We further declare that one so receiving 

 ordination in good faith from such a person cannot 

 exercise such orders until he shall have been dis- 



7. Foreign secular clerics, who, after having lived 

 more than four months in Eome, are ordained by any 

 other than their Ordinary without license from the 

 Cardinal Vicar of Eome, or without previously passing 

 an examination before him, or even if ordained by 

 their own Ordinary after being sent back from the 

 above examination ; and in the same way ecclesiastics 

 belonging to any of the six suburbicarian dioceses, if 

 they should be ordained out of their own dioceses by 

 license of their Ordinary addressed to any but the 

 Cardinal Vicar of the city, and who have not per- 

 formed, before receiving Holy Orders, the spiritual 

 exercises for ten days in the house in Eome of the 

 Priest of the Missions so called ; all jsuch incur sus- 

 pension ipso jure from Orders so received, during the 

 good pleasure of the Holy See, and the Bishops who 

 ordained such, suspension from exercise of episcopal 

 rites for the space of a year. 



INTEBDICTS LATJ3 SENTENTIJB (BESEBVED). 



1. Such Universities, Colleges, and Chapters, how- 

 ever they may be entitled, who appeal from the orders 



