Title — Decretals of Gregory IX
Title XXIV: On a Cleric Who Hunts
Chapter I
Latin source headnote: Hunting is prohibited to a cleric, and a penalty is imposed upon one acting contrary to this. It says this together with the following chapter.
From the Council of Orléans.
It is not lawful for a bishop, priest, or deacon to possess dogs, hawks, or things of this kind for hunting. But if anyone among such persons shall have been detained more frequently in this pleasure, if he is a bishop, let him be suspended from communion for three months; if a priest, for two; if a deacon, let him be suspended from every office.
DE CLERICO VENATORE.
Clerico prohibetur venatio, et contra facienti poena imponitur. Hoc dicit cum sequenti. Ex concilio Aurelianensi. Episcopum, presbyterum aut diaconum canes aut accipitres aut huiusmodi res ad venandum habere non licet. Quodsi quis talium personarum in hac voluptate saepius detentus fuerit, si episcopus est, tribus mensibus a communione suspendatur: si presbyter, duobus; si diaconus, ab omni officio suspendatur.
Chapter II
Latin source headnote: It is summarized in the immediately preceding chapter.
From the same council.
We forbid all servants of God hunts and woodland wanderings with dogs, and hawks or falcons.
Summatum est supra capitulo proximo.
Ex eodem.
Omnibus servis Dei venationes et silvaticas vagationes cum canibus, et accipitres aut falcones interdicimus.