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Printing Scripture without leave (Can. 2318 § 2)
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Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology
§ 3. From the Motu proprio *Praestantia*
Thirteenth non-reserved excommunication. Those who contradict the things which are contained either in the decree Lamentabili (July 3, 1907), or in the constitution Pascendi (September 8, 1907).
Slater, Manual of Moral Theology
Vol. II, Bk. X, Pt. III, Ch. I, E.—Excommunications Reserved to No One
Canon 2318 I. Auctores et editores qui sine debita licentia sacrarum Scripturarum libros vel eorum adnotationes aut commentarios imprimi curant, incidunt ipso facto in excommunicationem nemini reservatam. (Authors and publishers who without the requisite permission cause books of Holy Scripture, or notes or commentaries upon them, to be printed, fall ipso facto under an excommunication reserved to no one.)
Auctores—Authors of notes and commentaries on Holy Scripture.
Licentia—Leave of the Ordinary of the author, or of the place where the notes, etc., are printed or published.
Imprimi—Having the books or notes or commentaries printed is what is forbidden under censure without leave. Canon 2339 II. Qui ausi fuerint mandare seu cogere tradi ecclesiasticae sepulturae infideles, apostatas a fide, vel haereticos, schismaticos, aliosve sive excommunicatos sive interdictos, contra praescriptum Can. (Those who shall have dared to order or to compel that infidels, apostates from the faith, or heretics, schismatics, or others either excommunicated or interdicted, be given ecclesiastical burial, against the prescription of Canon 1240,) 1240, sec. 1 contrahunt excommunicationem latae sententiae nemini reservatam. (§ 1, contract an excommunication latae sententiae reserved to no one.)
Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis
Vol. III, Pt. II, Tr. VI, Ch. III, Art. I, § 3. On The Excommunications Existing Today
524. In this series five excommunications are enumerated:
- "Authors and editors who without due permission cause the books of Sacred Scripture, or annotations or commentaries upon them, to be printed" (can. 2318, § 2).
This excommunication is already found in the Constitution Officiorum et munerum, January 25, 1897 (n. 48). Three local Ordinaries can grant the due permission for printing books of this kind: a) the proper local Ordinary of the author; b) the Ordinary of the place in which they are printed;193 c) the Ordinary of the place in which they are published.194 If one of these three Ordinaries has denied permission, the author cannot seek it from another Ordinary unless he has informed that Ordinary of the permission denied by the other. Religious must furthermore obtain the permission of their major superior.195
193 Place of printing.
194 Place of publication.
195 Code of Canon Law, c. 1385, §§ 2 and 3.