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§ 3. Suspensions Imposed after the Bull *Apostolicae sedis*

113.

113. The unjust morals of our times have given the holy see occasion for carrying these five suspensions.

  1. First later suspension. From the bull Romanus pontifex, August 28, 1873.

Bishops who are guilty of that crime which by the constitution Romanus pontifex is punished in others by excommunication, incur not excommunication, but suspension from pontificals reserved in a special mode (n. 66).

  1. Second later suspension. From the decree Vigilanti of S. C. C., May 25, 1893, and from the decree Ubi debita of the same sacred congregation, May 11, 1904.

Those who sin against these decrees1 incur: a. if they are priests, suspension a divinis or from office, reserved to the pope; b. if they are clerics not yet priests, likewise suspension from orders and, in addition, inability to receive higher orders.

  1. Third later suspension. From the bull Orientalium dignitas, November 30, 1894.

Latin missionaries, whether secular or regular, who induce any Eastern person by counsel or help to embrace the Latin rite, incur suspension a divinis.

  1. Fourth later suspension. From the decree Anteactis temporibus of S. C. C., December 22, 1894.

They incur suspension a divinis:

a. Secular clerics and priests, and also regulars dwelling outside cloisters, who establish a stable domicile in the City without permission of the holy see.

b. Clerics and priests of another diocese who are chosen for an ecclesiastical office which requires residence in the City, without testimonial letters of their bishop and without permission of the holy see already obtained.

c. Those who for a just cause with the license of the ordinary are staying in the City, but as soon as a cause of this kind has ceased, or if they are recalled by their own bishop, do not return to their own diocese.

  1. Fifth later suspension. From the decree In perturbationibus of S. C. C., July 12, 1900.

Priests and clerics who, in order to bring assistance in any way whatever to internal wars and political conflicts, even if they have not taken up arms, have deserted their own place of residence, and those who in civil war have voluntarily given their name to military service, contract suspension from order, from office, and from benefice, specially reserved.

1 What these decrees establish, see n. 96.

Suspensions which Are Vindicative Penalties