Title — Liber Sextus
Title III: On Spiritual Kinship
Chapter I
Spiritual kinship is contracted between the baptized person and the person lifting him from the font; between the baptized person and the children and wife of the latter, if she was carnally known before the lifting; between the person receiving and the father and mother of the person received; and similarly concerning the person baptizing. This states the point as far as § “From confirmation.” Dominicus. — § 1. Confirmation of the forehead induces spiritual kinship just as baptism does. This states the point. Dominicus.
Boniface VIII.
It is established by law that spiritual kinship is contracted in baptism not only between the baptized person and the one who received him from baptism, and between the same baptized person and the children of the receiver and the receiver’s wife who was carnally known by him before the reception, but also between the receiver and the father and mother of the baptized person. This kinship both impedes a marriage to be contracted and dissolves one after it has been contracted. And the same things said concerning the receiver are also to be held concerning the one baptizing.
§ 1. From confirmation also, or the chrismation of the forehead, spiritual kinship is contracted in the same ways, similarly impeding marriages to be contracted and dissolving them after they have been contracted.
DE COGNATIONE SPIRITUALI.
Inter baptizatum et levantem, filios et uxorem levantis, ante carnaliter cognitam, et suscipientem et patrem et matrem suscepti, et similiter de baptizante, spiritualis contrahitur cognatio. H. d. usque ad §. Ex confirmatione. Domin. — §. 1. Confirmatio frontis inducit spiritualem cognationem, sicut baptisma. H. d. Domin.
Bonifacius VIII.
Nedum inter baptizatum et illum, qui eum suscepit de baptismo, ac inter eundem baptizatum et suscipientis filios et uxorem, ante susceptionem carnaliter cognitam ab eodem, immo etiam inter suscipientem, patremque baptizati et matrem, cognationem spiritualem in baptismo contrahi iure constat, quae cognatio et contrahendum matrimonium impedit, et dirimit post contractum. Et eadem, quae de suscipiente sunt dicta, sunt etiam de baptizante censenda. §. 1. Ex confirmatione quoque seu frontis chrismatione spiritualis cognatio eisdem modis contrahitur, matrimonia similiter impediens contrahenda, et dirimens post contracta.
Chapter II
Co-parenthood contracted through catechism impedes marriage but does not dissolve it. Johannes Andreae.
The same.
Through catechism, which precedes baptism, the foundation of the sacraments and the gate of the others, spiritual kinship is contracted, through which a marriage to be contracted is impeded, as is clearly gathered from a decretal of our predecessor Pope Clement III. For by saying that such a matter would scarcely bring an impediment to the contracting of marriage, he seems to mean that it does bring one. For what is scarcely done nevertheless undoubtedly is done. Yet through that kinship a marriage contracted after it is in no way separated.
Compaternitas per catechismum contracta impedit matrimonium, sed non dirimit. Ioann. Andr.
Idem.
Per catechismum, qui praecedit baptismum, sacramentorum fundamentum et ianuam reliquorum, cognatio spiritualis contrahitur, per quam contrahendum matrimonium impeditur, ut ex praedecessoris nostri Clementis Papae III. decretali colligitur evidenter. Dicendo enim, quod talis res vix contrahendo matrimonio impedimentum afferret, velle videtur, quod afferat. Nam quod vix fit, fieri tamen dubium non exsistit. Per illam tamen cognationem matrimonium, post eam contractum minime separatur.
Chapter III
Only one person ought to take part in lifting an infant from the sacred font or in the chrismation of the forehead; nevertheless, if several take part, they contract spiritual kinship. And kinship is not contracted from the other sacraments. This states the point. Dominicus.
The same.
Although no more than one man or one woman ought, according to the statutes of the sacred canons, to approach to receive an infant from baptism, nevertheless, if several approach, spiritual kinship is thereby contracted, impeding marriages to be contracted and also dissolving them after they have been contracted. Moreover, with respect to this, the same judgment is to be held concerning confirmation. But from the conferral of the other sacraments no spiritual kinship at all arises that impedes or dissolves marriage.
Unus tantum intervenire debet in levatione infantis de sacro fonte, vel chrismatione frontis; tamen, si plures interveniunt, cognationem contrahunt spiritualem. Et ex aliis sacramentis cognatio non contrahitur. H. d. Domin.
Idem.
Quamvis non plures, quam unus vir, vel una mulier accedere debeant ad suscipiendum de baptismo infantem iuxta sacrorum canonum instituta: si tamen plures accesserint, spiritualis cognatio inde contrahitur matrimonia contrahenda impediens, et etiam post contracta dissolvens. De confirmatione insuper, quantum ad hoc, idem iudicium est habendum. Ex datione vero aliorum sacramentorum cognatio spiritualis nequaquam oritur, quae matrimonium impediat vel dissolvat.