Article — 1917 Code of Canon Law
Article III: Of the Discussion of the Process concerning Non-Cult
Superseded as law in 1983 — read why this Code still matters. Each canon links to its 1983 counterpart.
Once the commission of introduction of the cause has been signed, the doubt whether the sentence concerning non-cult pronounced by the Ordinary is to be confirmed must be discussed by the Cardinal Fathers in particular ordinary meetings. If the sentence of the Cardinal Fathers has declared that cult was offered, by the judgment of the same Fathers, all circumstances having been considered, the cause is to be suspended until all signs of prohibited cult have been removed, and this obedience has been furnished for a certain time to be established by the Fathers themselves.
Signata commissione introductionis causae, a Patribus Cardinalibus in comitiis ordinariis particularibus discutiendum est dubium num confirmanda sit sententia de non cultu ab Ordinario prolata. Si sententia Patrum Cardinalium cultum praestitum fuisse edixerit, eorundem Patrum arbitrio, omnibus circumstantiis attentis, causa suspendatur quousque omnia signa vetiti cultus remota fuerint, et haec obedientia ad certum tempus, ab ipsis Patribus statuendum, fuerit praestita.
§ 1. If the Ordinary has not yet prepared the process concerning non-cult before the introduction of the cause, one must come to that process by apostolic authority.
§ 2. To this end the Promoter General of the Faith is to draw up interrogatories which, together with the remissorial letters of which in can. 2087 and following, are dispatched by the Sacred Congregation to the judges designated by it.
§ 3. When there is question of martyrs, in whose cause the Ordinary omitted instructing the process concerning non-cult before the introduction of the cause, to the remissorial letters for preparing the process concerning martyrdom and the cause of martyrdom is to be added a commission for collecting proofs concerning non-cult, together with particular interrogatories proposed by the Promoter General of the Faith.
§ 1. Si Ordinarius processum super non cultu nondum confecerit ante causae introductionem, ad eundem processum deveniendum est auctoritate apostolica.
§ 2. Ad hunc finem fidei Promotor generalis interrogatoria exaret quae una cum litteris remissorialibus, de quibus in can. 2087 seqq., a Sacra Congregatione expediuntur ad iudices ab ipsa designatos.
§ 3. Quando agitur de martyribus, in quorum causa Ordinarius omiserit processum super non cultu instruere ante causae introductionem, litteris remissorialibus ad conficiendum processum super martyrio et causa martyrii addatur commissio ad colligendas probationes super non cultu una cum peculiaribus interrogatoriis a fidei Promotore generali propositis.