Article 42

Men of the secular clergy should not publish even books which treat of arts and merely natural sciences without consulting their Ordinaries, so that they may furnish an example of an obedient mind toward them.

The same men are prohibited from undertaking, without previous permission of the Ordinaries, the direction of newspapers or periodic sheets.

Force and division of the article

By this article special law is described for the secular clergy, since provision seems sufficiently to have been made for regulars through the closer obedience which they exhibit to Superiors. Moreover, there is a double disposition: one is concerning books, the other concerning periodic sheets and newspapers.