CRIMEN SOLICITATIONIS

Note: Whatever appears within the brackets is valid in the case where the examination is by the delegate, or respectively, without the intervention of a notary.
    If the delegate, however, having given a grave reason, cannot observe this way of administering an examination, he should recur to him from whom he received the delegation fro [further] instructions.

    The notary, if he is present, otherwise, he who is to undertake the examination will begin the procedures in these or in similar words:

    On the…day of the moth of…in the year…

    By force of the decree of R.P.D. [The Most Reverend Bishop]  (Let there be written the name, etc., of the Ordinary of the place) given on the date of …..having been summoned there appeared before the undersigned (let there be written down the name, the family name, etc. of the person who is to receive the act, and who, if the notary is not present, will write: in the presence of myself and undersigned), taking place in ( let there be noted the place and diocese where he is to bound who is to receive the action)
[especially delegated only for this action by R.P.D……., as appears from his letter directed to me and given to me on the date (let there be expressed on what precise day the letter was written ), this person, N.N. (here should be written the name, family name, father’s name, homeland, age, condition and address of the person summoned; and, if he is a religious, also the name by which this person is known in the world), having been brought to take an oath to tell the truth, which he does touching God’s Holy Gospels (which he must touch with his hand), was:

    Asked:  Whether he knows or imagines the reason for his being called for the present examination?
    He responded::… (let there be written his response in that language which the summoned person uses).

    Asked: …For how many years have you been approaching the sacrament of penance?
    He responded:…

    Asked:  Whether he always went to receive the sacrament of penance from the one and same confessor ++43++ or whether from many priests: moreover, whether he always went to receive the sacrament of penance in the one and same church?
    He responded: …

    Asked: Whether from each of the priests to whom this person confessed he received holy admonitions and opportune instructions, which gave edification to the person being examined, and kept him from evil.
    He responded:…

    If the response was affirmative, that is, if he says that he had always been directed well, then he will be interrogated in the following manner:

    Asked: Whether he knows or remembers if at any time it was said or heard that a certain confessor had not acted in such a holy and honest manner towards penitents, so that murmurs or even contemptible words against the confessor had been preferred: for example, had the person being examined heard similar things from one or from many penitents, and over the past year or over four or three months?
    He responded:…

   If after this interrogation and commentary the person being examined continues to deny, let the action be concluded with the usual formula, which appears at the bottom of this instruction.

    But if there had appeared to be something against my confessor, according to those things concerning which he being asked, then he will be interrogated further as follows: