Note 515 — Chapter II · LIMITATION OF JURISDICTION OR RESERVED CASES

S. Alph. l. c. n. 583; H. A. n. 130. These specified cases are the following: 1. Apostasy from the Order, even when the habit of the Order is still retained. 2. Secretly absenting one’s self from the monastery at night. 3. Three forms of superstition: Veneficia, incantationes, sortilegia. 4. Possession of property against the vow of poverty, which constitutes a mortal sin. 5. Theft (to the extent of mortal sin) of goods belonging to the monastery. 6. Lapsus carnis voluntarius opere consummatus. 7. Perjury before a lawful judge. 8. Procuratio, consilium vel auxilium ad abortum fœtus animati. 9. Killing or wounding or severely beating any one. 10. Forging the handwriting or the seal of the officials of the monastery. 11. Maliciously obstructing, delaying, or opening written communications from Superiors to subordinates, or subordinates to Superiors. The confessors of Regulars must know these cases, so that, should one of them occur, they may send the penitent to the Superior or to a confessor possessing the necessary faculties for absolution; or that they may, according to circumstances, procure for themselves the necessary faculties for this case. But if a Regular priest confesses to a secular priest or to a priest of another Order (for example, on a journey—see above), it is disputed whether this confessor possesses the power to absolve from the reserved cases of the monastery. For Capuchins sojourning out of their monastery the power has been given by Benedict XIV (30 March, 1742) and confirmed by Pius IX (1852), with the understanding, however, that the penitent appears before his Superior or the confessor appointed by him as soon as possible and receives absolution anew. S. Alph. Lib. VI. nn. 575-583.