A Topic of Moral Theology

Summoning cardinals, legates or one's Ordinary before a lay judge (Can. 2341)

The censure on dragging cardinals, legates, or one's own Ordinary before lay courts.

In the index as Enclosure · Privilege · Privilege of Forum · Going Out · Immunity · Judge · Regulars · Censure · Clerics · Entrance · Forum · Laymen · Legates Of The Roman Pontiff · Those Violating · To Summon · Violation · Witnesses

In the manuals

A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries

Vol. II, Bk. X, Pt. III, Ch. I, B.—Excommunications Specially Reserved to the Holy See, nn. 16, 17 & 18 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Synopsis of Moral and Pastoral Theology

Vol. II, On Ecclesiastical Censures, nn. 1174 & 1175 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Compendium of Moral Theology

Vol. II, Tr. XIX, Chapter IV. On Censures in Individual Delicts, n. 991 — Explanation. - Here Canon 120 must be held before the eyes, concerning clerics to be convened in contentious and criminal causes only before an ecclesiastical judge, except cases in which due permission is had for conven… Read in context →

Treated under the broader heading Excommunications Specially Reserved to the Holy See — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · 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.)