E.—Excommunications Reserved to No One

From a censure which is not reserved any confessor in the tribunal of Penance, and outside the tribunal of Penance anyone who has jurisdiction over the culprit in the external forum can give absolution (Can. 2253).

Canon 2318 I. Auctores et editores qui sine debita licentia sacrarum Scripturarum libros vel eorum adnotationes aut commentarios imprimi curant, incidunt ipso facto in excommunicationem nemini reservatam. (Authors and publishers who without the requisite permission cause books of Holy Scripture, or notes or commentaries upon them, to be printed, fall ipso facto under an excommunication reserved to no one.)

Auctores—Authors of notes and commentaries on Holy Scripture.

Licentia—Leave of the Ordinary of the author, or of the place where the notes, etc., are printed or published.

Imprimi—Having the books or notes or commentaries printed is what is forbidden under censure without leave. Canon 2339 II. Qui ausi fuerint mandare seu cogere tradi ecclesiasticae sepulturae infideles, apostatas a fide, vel haereticos, schismaticos, aliosve sive excommunicatos sive interdictos, contra praescriptum Can. (Those who shall have dared to order or to compel that infidels, apostates from the faith, or heretics, schismatics, or others either excommunicated or interdicted, be given ecclesiastical burial, against the prescription of Canon 1240,) 1240, sec. 1 contrahunt excommunicationem latae sententiae nemini reservatam. (§ 1, contract an excommunication latae sententiae reserved to no one.)

Ausi.—Crass ignorance excuses from the censure.

Mandare.—Public authority is to be understood.

Sepulturae——Which consists not only of burial in consecrated ground, but in transferring the corpse to the church and therein holding a funeral service (Can. 1204). So that mere burial would not incur the censure. Canon 2347 III. Quod si beneplacitum apostolicum in memoratis Canonibus 534, sec. I, 1532 praescriptum [ad alienanda bona ecclesiastica] fuerit scienter praetermissum omnes quovis modo reos sive dando sive recipiendo sive consensum praebendo manet excommunicatio latae sententiae nemini reservata. (But if the apostolic approval prescribed in the aforesaid Canons 534 § 1 and 1532, for alienating ecclesiastical goods, has been knowingly omitted, an excommunication latae sententiae reserved to no one awaits all who are in any way guilty, whether by giving, or by receiving, or by lending their consent.)

Scienter.—Full knowledge that there is question of ecclesiastical property, that leave of the Holy See is required for its alienation, and this under censure.

Omnes.—Not only the giver and the receiver, but all whose consent is required for the transaction, and who gave it. Canon 2352 IV. Excommunicatione nemini reservata ipso facto plectuntur omnes, qualibet etiam dignitate fulgentes, qui quoquo modo cogant sive virum ad statum clericalem amplectendum, (There are punished ipso facto with an excommunication reserved to no one all persons, even though adorned with any dignity whatsoever, who in any way compel a man to embrace the clerical state,) sive virum aut mulierem ad religionem ingrediendam vel ad emittendam religiosam professionem tam sollemnem quam simplicem, tam perpetuam quam temporariam. (or a man or a woman to enter religion or to make religious profession, whether solemn or simple, whether perpetual or temporary.)

Cogant.—By violence, threats, instilling grave fear.

Emittendam.—Compelling them after they have entered freely to make their profession against their will. Canon 2368 V. Fidelis qui scienter omiserit eum a quo sollicitatus fuerit, intra mensem denunciare contra praescriptum Can. 904 incurrit in excommunicationem latae sententiae nemini reservatam, non absolvendus nisi postquam obligationi satisfecerit, aut se satisfacturum serio promiserit. (A member of the faithful who knowingly fails to denounce within a month the person by whom he was solicited, against the prescription of Canon 904, incurs an excommunication latae sententiae reserved to no one, and is not to be absolved until he has satisfied the obligation, or has seriously promised that he will satisfy it.)

Fidelis—He who has been solicited and who refuses to denounce the culprit is subject to this censure, not someone else who knows of the crime. See above on Penance, Chapter XI.