Article 41

All the faithful are bound to submit to previous ecclesiastical censure at least those books which regard the divine Scriptures, Sacred Theology, ecclesiastical History, Canon Law, natural Theology, Ethics, or other religious or moral disciplines of this kind, and generally all writings in which religion and the honesty of morals are specially concerned.

By the first words, all the faithful, the article professes that it establishes a common law, while the one immediately following treats of the special obligation by which secular clerics are bound. After this introduction, it is suitably divided into two parts, of which the former treats of books, the other of any writings whatsoever.