Article 25

Bishops and other Prelates possessing jurisdiction as if episcopal can grant license for individual books, and only in urgent cases. But if the same have obtained from the Apostolic See a general faculty, so that they can impart to the faithful license of reading and retaining proscribed books, let them grant it only with selection and from a just and reasonable cause.

Force of the article

1. This article treats of Bishops and of Prelates who possess jurisdiction as if episcopal. It concedes to them a certain ordinary power for permitting the reading of individual books; and it admonishes them concerning the right use of the broader faculties which have customarily been delegated to them. Hence there are two Parts of the article.