A Topic of Moral Theology
False relics (Can. 2326)
The censure on making or knowingly venerating false relics.
In the manuals
A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries
Vol. II, Bk. X, Pt. III, Ch. I, D.—Excommunications Reserved to the Ordinary, n. 8 — Scienter affects only those who sell, distribute, or expose false relics to the public veneration of the faithful, not those who make them. Canon 2343 manus injecerit in personam III. Qui violentas aliorum clericorum vel… Read in context →
Treated under the broader heading Excommunications Reserved to the Ordinary — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Tanquerey · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Konings, Theologia Moralis · The Casuist — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)