Note 509 — Chapter I · JURISDICTION

All these precepts are contained in the Trid. Sess. XXV. cp. 10 de Regul. et Mon. and the Constit. Benedict XIV, Pastoralis curæ. Pope Leo XIII, quoted above, has renewed the same quoad confessarios ordinarios et extraordinarios by a Decretum S. Congregat. Ep. et Regul. de conscientiæ ratione Confessariis extraordinariis, etc., d. 17 Dec., 1890, and exhorts Præsules and Superiores, “ne extraordinarium denegent subditis Confessarium quoties ut propriæ conscientiæ consulant ad id subditi adigantur, quin iidem Superiores ullo modo petitionis rationem inquirant aut ægre id ferre demonstrent. Ac ne evanida tam provida dispositio fiat, Ordinarios exhortatur (sc. Sanctitas sua), ut in locis propriæ Dioeceseos Sacerdotes facultatibus instructos designent, ad quos pro Sacramento Pœnitentiæ recurrere eæ facile queant.” This decree was occasioned by precepts in the constitutions “plurium Congregationum, Societatum aut Institutionum sive mulierum, quæ vota simplicia aut solemnia nuncupant, sive virorum professione ac regimine penitus laicorum.”