Title — Liber Sextus
Title X: On Penances and Remissions
Chapter I
Collectors do not cite anyone, although they can admonish them, and in granting indulgences the archbishop shall not exceed the statute of the general council. This states the point. Zenzelinus.
Innocent IV, in the Council of Lyon.
The Roman Church. (And below:) The Archbishop of Reims or his officials shall by no means grant to the collectors for the fabric of the Church of Reims power to cite subjects of the suffragans of that church, whom the same collectors have said resist them or refuse to obey them, so that they appear concerning this before them. But concerning their kindly reception and the assistance to be made to the fabric itself, they can charitably admonish the same suffragans and other faithful of Christ of the province of Reims. In granting indulgences also, the Archbishop of Reims shall not exceed the statute of the general council.
DE POENITENTIIS ET REMISSIONIBUS.
Quaestores non citant aliquos, licet eos monere possint, et in concedendis indulgentiis non excedant archiepiscopi statutum concilii generalis.
H. d. Zenz.
Innocentius IV. in concilio Lugdunensi.
Romana ecclesia (Et infra:) Quaestoribus autem fabricae Remensis ecclesiae Remensis archiepiscopus sive eius officiales citandi suffraganeorum ipsius ecclesiae subditos, quos iidem quaestores sibi resistere aut nolle parere dixerint, ut super hoc compareant coram ipsis, nequaquam tribuant potestatem. Super benigna vero ipsorum receptione ac subventione ipsi fabricae facienda possunt eosdem suffraganeos et alios Christi fideles Remensis provinciae caritative monere. In concedendis quoque indulgentiis non excedat Remensis archiepiscopus statutum concilii generalis.
Chapter II
A general grant of a confessor does not touch cases specially reserved to the bishop, nor can anyone choose a confessor for himself by reason of custom. This states the point. Zenzelinus.
Boniface VIII.
If a bishop grants to his subject that he may choose a suitable confessor for himself, the one whom the subject chooses has no power at all in the cases which are specially reserved to the same bishop, since those things which one would not probably grant in particular do not come within that general grant. Nor can it be introduced by any custom that anyone, without the license of his superior, may choose for himself a confessor who can loose or bind him.
Concessio generalis confessoris non tangit episcopo specialiter reservata, nec obtentu consuetudinis potest quis sibi eligere confessorem. H. d. Zenz.
Bonifacius VIII.
Si episcopus suo subdito concesserit, ut sibi possit idoneum eligere confessorem: ille, quem is eligerit, in casibus, qui eidem episcopo specialiter reservantur, nullam habet penitus potestatem, quum in generali concessione illa non veniant, quae non esset quis verisimiliter in specie concessurus. Nulla quoque potest consuetudine introduci, quod aliquis praeter sui superioris licentiam confessorem sibi eligere valeat, qui eum possit solvere vel ligare.
Chapter III
The decretal “Since from this” has place when several bishops grant indulgences. This states the point. Zenzelinus.
The same.
Indulgences which are granted by one or several bishops at dedications of churches or in any other cases do not obtain force if they have exceeded the statute of the general council.
Decretalis Quum ex eo in pluribus episcopis indulgentibus locum habet.
H. d. Zenz.
Idem.
Indulgentiae, quae ab uno vel pluribus episcopis in ecclesiarum dedicationibus vel aliis quibuscunque casibus conceduntur, vires non obtinent, si statutum excesserint concilii generalis.