§ 2. From the Council of Trent

Sixth non-reserved excommunication. Whoever shall have presumed to teach, preach, or pertinaciously assert, or by disputing publicly defend, that sacramental confession is not to be premised to the sacrament of the Eucharist, when there is abundance of a confessor, if he whom consciousness of mortal sin burdens judges himself to be truly contrite. Sess. 13. c. 11.

105. He incurs the censure who denies that sacramental confession is necessarily to be premised; therefore he does not incur it who only denies that it is necessary by divine law, nor he, whether he is a cleric or layman, who does not premise confession where he is bound from the Tridentine decree.

Seventh non-reserved excommunication. Those who deny that clandestine marriages made by the free consent of the contracting parties are true and ratified, so long as the Church has not made them invalid. Whoever shall affirm that marriages contracted by children of the family without the consent of parents are invalid, and that parents can make them ratified or invalid. Sess. 24. c. 1. De reform. matr.

Eighth non-reserved excommunication. The abductor of a woman, and all those furnishing him counsel, help, and favor. Sess. 24. c. 6. De reform. matr.

106. Both the abductor and his cooperators incur the censure, even if marriage did not follow or was not attempted.

Ninth non-reserved excommunication. Those who in any way directly or indirectly compel their subjects or any others, so that they do not freely contract marriages. Sess. 24. c. 9. De reform. matr.

107. This censure protects the liberty of marriage. Temporal lords and magistrates incur it, who exercise jurisdiction in the secular external forum, but not private persons, such as parents who compel children, or masters who compel servants, to enter marriage.

Tenth non-reserved excommunication. Magistrates who refuse to furnish help to the bishop against those who violate the enclosure of nuns or prohibit them from being restored. Sess. 25. c. 5. De regul.

Eleventh non-reserved excommunication. All who in any way have compelled any woman, unwilling, except in cases expressed in law, to enter a monastery, or to receive the habit of any religion, or to emit profession; and those who shall have given counsel, help, or favor; and those who, knowing that she does not spontaneously enter the monastery, or receive the habit, or emit profession, in any way interpose their presence, or consent, or authority to the same act. Sess. 25. c. 18. De regul.

Twelfth non-reserved excommunication. Those who in any way, without just cause, shall have impeded the holy will of virgins or other women of receiving the veil or emitting a vow. Sess. 25. c. 18. De regul.

108. a. These two censures protect the liberty of entering religion. There is question of religion strictly such, of solemn vows.

b. In law a twofold case is had in which a bishop can compel a woman to enter a monastery, not indeed that she emit profession there, but that she dwell there: a. a wife who, after her husband has emitted profession with her consent, is suspected of incontinence; b. an adulterous wife whom the husband is unwilling to receive though she is penitent.