Section — Vermeersch, On Forbidden Books
III. On Books Injurious to the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy or to the Clerical or Religious State
76. The third part of article 11 stated this: Books are also prohibited which, by designed effort, assail the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, or the clerical or religious state, with insults.
By designed effort
1. By designed effort, not therefore if they cast out some such thing incidentally. For because, unlike detraction and the perversion of the concept of inspiration, insults can be cast out even in one word, the wise Legislator expressed the clause by designed effort, by which he touches only books which would assail with insults either in a notable part and with conceived purpose, or in such a way that from the manner and frequency it would appear that this is fixed and established for the writer: to seize in the book every occasion of doing these things. In French you would say: c'est un parti pris. Cf. Pennacchi.1 Very well Hollweck:2 "this tendency must dominate the whole, or at least a considerable part." Planchard:3 "which disparage by deliberate bias."
What Ecclesiastical Hierarchy is
2. Ecclesiastical Hierarchy: sacred power distributed into various grades, whether of Order or of Jurisdiction. The case would be, for example, if you assail with insults the Priestly order, the Episcopal order, the Supreme Pontificate.
The clerical or religious state is to be assailed as such
3. Clerical or religious state: as such; not, for example, if you assail merely such and such a religious Order with these things.
1 Cited work, n. 49.
2 Das kirchl. Bücherverbot, p. 34, note 3.
3 Rev. Th. Fr., cited place, n. 43.