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ARTICLE I: On Excommunications *Latae Sententiae*

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¶1313.
  1. Excommunications are given which are either 1. reserved to the Roman Pontiff in a special way; or 2. reserved to the same simply; or 3. reserved to Ordinaries; or 4. reserved to no one.

Those which are reviewed in the first part are with very good right disposed thus: The first five fortify the FOUNDATION of the Church, namely faith and the divine Constitution of the Church reposed in the Supreme Pontiff and Bishops; the four following, together with the thirteenth concerning intruded persons, defend the POWER and LIBERTY of the Church; and the last three protect the GOODS of the Church, whether spiritual, excomm. 10, or temporal. In the second series almost the same order recurs.

The Commandments of GodCensures and Ecclesiastical PenaltiesCensures Now in Force

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