CRIMEN SOLICITATIONIS( CRIME OF SOLICITATION )
FROM THE SUPREME AND HOLY CONGREGATION OF THE HOLY OFFICE FOR ALL PATRIARCHS, ARCHBISHOPS, BISHOPS AND OTHER DIOCESAN ORDINARIES“EVEN OF THE ORIENTAL RITE” ON THE MANNER OF PROCEEDING IN CASES OF SOLICITATION The Vatican Press, 1962 ++55++
A) IN THE CASE OF PROPOSING AN ADJOURNMENT Once there is premised a brief summary and inquiry about the reason of law and fact, there is this conclusion; for example. Having taken everything into consideration, I think it should be decided that the Reverend …. Be dismissed with a grave admonition, the process remaining in force. And for the same reason and purpose. The purpose is (for example) that he watched more diligently: that he be kept from any familiarity with woman, also using ecclesiastical censures, and, if anything obscene (or, if anything not in keeping with the sacerdotal state, etc.) is observed in his life-style, the he will be brought to the tribunal immediately. On the…day of the month of…in the year… Signature of the Promoter of Justice B) IN THE CASE OF PROPOSING A CONDEMNATION What has been premised above, etc. …I think that it should be decreed that, having imposed congruent (or grave) and salutary penances, among which there would be spiritual exercises for …days to be done in a religious house, during which he will remain suspended from the celebration of the mass, the Reverend… should be dismissed with (here there should be expressed according to the prescription of Canon 2368 $ I and also the supplementary sanctions which seem to need to be inflicted). If he has by chance absolved his accomplice, he should heal his conscience by a recourse to the Sacred Penitentiary. On the … day of the month of … in the year … Signature of the Promoter of Justice C) IN THE CASE OF PROPOSING ABSOLUTION … I think it should be decreed: that the innocence of the charged person is evident from the acts; and therefore Reverend…should e dismissed once he has been absolved. ++56++
The manner of Rendering a Condemnatory Sentence in Case where the Accused Remains Negative We (there should be noted the name, father’s name, qualities, etc., of the Judge-Ordinary or the delegated). Since…(the name, father’s name, age, condition, etc. of the accused, and, if he is a religious, there should also be added the name he used in the world ) was not afraid to abuse the sacrament of penance by words and acts concerning which there is treatment in the Pontifical Constitutions and especially in the Constitution of Benedict XIV, which first words are Sacramentum Poenitentiae, by saying and doing these things…(here, summarily, and in prudent and discrete words, there should be told how, how often, etc. the accused committed the fault);
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