CRIMEN SOLICITATIONIS

    70.   All these official communications shall always be made under the secret of the Holy Office; and, since they concern the common good of the church to the greatest degree,  the precept of doing these things obliges under serious sin [sub gravil]. 
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   71.   By the name of the worst crime is understood at this point a signification of any obscene external deed, gravely sinful, in any perpetrated by a cleric or attempt with person of his own sex.
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  72.      Those  things that have been stated concerning the crime of solicitation up to this point are also valid, changing only those things necessary to be charged by their very nature, for the worst crime, if someone by chance in the presence of the Ordinary of the place,  concerning which (which may god prevent) happens to be accused, having accepted the obligation of the denunciation from the positive law of the church, unless perhaps it has been joined with the crime of solicitation in sacramental confession.  In decreeing penalties, however, against delinquents of this type, besides those which are found spoken of above, and they should also be kept before once eyes (Canon 2359, $ 2).

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  73.   To have the worst crime, for the penal effects, one must do the equivalent of the following: any obscene, external act , gravely sinful, perpetrated in any way by a cleric or attempted by him with youths of either sex or with brute animals (bestiality). 
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    74.   Against accused clerics for these crimes, if they are exempt religious, and unless there takes place the same time the crime of solicitation, even the regular superior can proceed, according to the holy cannons and their proper constitutions, either in a administrative or judicial manner. However, they must communicate the judicial decision pronounced as well as the administrative decision in the more serious cases to the Supreme  Congregation of the Holy Office.

    Our Most Holy Father Father John XXIII, in an audience granted to the most eminent Cardinal Secretary of the Holy Office on March 16, 1962, deigned to approve and confirm this instruction, ordering upon those to whom it pertains to keep an observe it in the minutest detail.