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PARTIAL INDULGENCE GRANTED TO THOSE WHO RENEW THEIR PURPOSE OF RESIGNEDLY ACCEPTING ANY KIND OF DEATH FROM THE HAND OF GOD

(November 16, 1916)

[An indulgence of seven years and as many quarantines, obtainable once a month, and applicable to the Holy Souls, is granted to all who, having received Holy Communion, devoutly recite the following Act: 'O Lord, my God, I now resignedly and gladly accept from Thy hand whatever form of death it shall please Thee to send me, with all its anguish, pain, and sorrow.'

The decree was published only in May, 1917.]

SUPREMA SACRA CONGREGATIO S. OFFICII

DECRETUM

INDULGENTIA PARTIALIS TRIBUITUR RENOVANTIBUS PROPOSITUM
CUIUSCUMQUE MORTIS GENERIS SUSCIPIENDI

Die 16 novembris 1916

SSñus D. N. D. Benedictus, div. Prov. Pp. XV, in Audientia R. P. D. Adsessori S. Officii impertita, universis christifidelibus qui, postquam sacram Communionem rite sumpserint, sequentem actum, iam a s. m. Pio Pp. X, die 9 martii 1904, plenaria indulgentia pro articulo mortis ditatum, renovaverint: Domine, Deus meus, iam nunc quodcumque mortis genus, prout tibi placuerit, cum omnibus suis angoribus, poenis ac doloribus, de manu tua aequo ac libenti animo suscipio,' indulgentiam septem annorum totidemque quadragenarum, defunctis quoque adplicabilem, semel in mense lucrandam, benigne concessit. Praesenti in perpetuum valituro absque ulla Brevis expeditione. Contrariis non obstantibus quibuscumque.

L.S.

R. CARD. MERRY DEL VAL, Secretarius.
DONATUS, Archiep. Ephes., Ads. S. O.

AN INDULGENCE OF THREE HUNDRED DAYS ATTACHED TO AN EJACULATORY PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

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Sanctissimus D. N. D. Benedictus div. Prov. Pp. XV, die 3 ianuarii 1917, ad preces moderatorum et alumnorum pontificii seminarii maioris

Lateranensis, in cuius minori sacello imago B. V. Deiparae, a Fiducia nuncupata, praecipuo cultu honoratur, universis christifidelibus, qui, corde saltem contrito, eandem beatissimam Virginem his verbis: Mater mea, fiducia mea! devote invocaverint, quoties id egerint, indulgentiam trecentorum dierum, animabus quoque igne piaculari detentis profuturam, benigne concedere dignatus est. Quam Indulgentiam in perpetuum valituram esse, absque ulla Brevis expeditione, clementer indulsit. Contrariis quibuscumque non obstantibus. Documentum huius concessionis ad Supremam hanc Congregationem S. Officii, iuxta Motu proprio eiusdem SS. D. N., d. die 16 septembris 1915, rite exhibitum fuit, die 27 ianuarii, anno 1917.

L. S.

R. CARD. MERRY DEL VAL, Secretarius.
CAROLUS PEROSI, Ads. S. O.

EXTENSION OF INDULGENCES ALREADY GRANTED TO GENUFLECTION AND PRAYER BEFORE THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT

(March 22, 1917)

[The decree of June 28, 1908, granted (a) 100 days' indulgence to the prayer, Jesus, my God, I adore Thee who art present in the sacrament of Thy love,' each time it is recited before the Blessed Sacrament enclosed in tabernacle; (b) 300 days' indulgence for each recital of same with a double genuflexion before Blessed Sacrament exposed; (c) 100 days' indulgence for each act of reverence in church or oratory where Blessed Sacrament is preserved.

The present decree concedes the same indulgences, even though words (expressive of adoration) other than those mentioned in above prayer are used by the faithful.]

SUPREMA SACRA CONGREGATIO S. OFFICII

DECRETUM

SEU DECLARATIO EXTENSIONIS QUARUMDAM INDULGENTIARUM

Die 22 martii 1917

SSmus D. N. D. Benedictus div. Prov. Pp. XV, in Audientia R. P. D. Adsessori S. Officii impertita, optatis plurimorum Sacrorum Antistitum obsecundare cupiens, praehabito voto Eminentissimorum Patrum Inquisitorum Generalium, benigne concedere dignatus est, ut christifideles, devote genuflexionem coram Augustissimo Sacramento, sive in Tabernaculo clauso, sive solemniter exposito, peragentes, Indulgentias a s. m. Pio Pp. X, die 28 iunii 1908, concessas lucrari valeant, etiamsi loco invocationis: Gesu, mio Dio, vi adoro qui presente nel Sacramento del vostro amore, alia proferant verba, quae tamen adorationem exprimant. Praesenti in perpetuum valituro, absque ulla Brevis expeditione. Contrariis quibuscumque non obstantibus.

L.S.

R. CARD. MERRY DEL VAL, Secretarius.
CAROLUS PEROSI, Ads. S. O.

THE SECRECY TO BE OBSERVED BY THOSE ASKED FOR INFORMATION REGARDING CANDIDATES FOR THE EPISCOPATE

(April 25, 1917)

SACRA CONGREGATIO CONSISTORIALIS

DUBIA

DE SECRETO SERVANDO AB IIS, QUI DE INFORMATIONIBUS REQUIRUNTUR CIRCA PROMOVENDOS AD EPISCOPATUM

Ad S. hanc Congregationem sequentia dubia pro solutione proposita fuerunt:

I. Num iis, qui sub secreto S. Officii de informationibus requiruntur circa personas ad episcopatum promovendas, liceat delatum sibi munus, qualibet de causa, etiam ad tutiores notitias hauriendas, aliis

revelare?

II. Num, reticita commissione de qua supra, liceat ab aliis notitias requirere, quoties adsit periculum, etiam remotum, revelationis secreti? III. Num datas informationes liceat, quacumque de causa, alteri, etiam secretissimo et intimo vel in ipsa sacramentali confessione, revelare?

IV. Quibus poenis plectatur qui talia egerit in primo, vel secundo, vel tertio casu ?

V. Qui ignarus certae notitiae, eam ab alio vel aliis tutissime haurire valeat absque ullo periculo violationis secreti; num possit ex se, absque S. Congregationis licentia, hanc personam vel has personas interrogare? VI. Et si hoc fecerit, tenetur ne hanc personam vel has personas, a quibus notitias hausit, in suis informationibus S. Congregationi manifestare?

Et Sacra Consistorialis Congregatio, omnibus mature perpensis, ad praedicta dubia respondendum censuit :

Ad I, II et III. In omnibus his casibus non licere.

Ad IV. Excommunicatione, a quo nemo, nisi Ipse Romanus Pontifex, excluso etiam Emo Cardinali Maiori Poenitentiario, absolvere potest; aliisque poenis ferendae sententiae, quae contra violatores secreti S. Officii a iure statutae sunt.

Ad V. Posse.

Ad VI. Teneri.

Quae solutiones cum ab infrascripto Cardinali Secretario ad Summum Pontificem, in audientia diei 20 huius mensis relatae fuissent, Sanctitas Sua eas approbavit et publicari mandavit.

Romae, ex aedibus Sacrae Congregationis Consistorialis, die 25 aprilis

1917.

C. CARD. DE LAI, Ep. Sabinen., Secretarius.
V. SARDI, Archiep. Caesarien., Adsessor.

L. S.

et Pauli apostolorum Eius auctoritate confisi, omnibus et singulis sodalibus ex utroque sexu, qui nomen suum dederint vel Primariae Associationi Ssmae Crucis in Sessoriana Basilica erectae, vel aliis ipsius nominis atque instituti illique aggregatis Societatibus, ubique terrarum exsistentibus, atque admissorum confessione expiati et Angelorum Pane refecti quotannis Inventionis atque Exaltationis Ssmae Crucis, nec non Nativitatis, Circumcisionis, Epiphaniae, Resurrectionis atque Ascensionis D. N. Iesu Christi festis diebus propriam respectivae Societatis Ecclesiam visitent, ibique pro christianorum Principum concordia, haeresum exstirpatione, peccatorum conversione ac S. Matris Ecclesiae exaltatione pias ad Deum preces effundant, plenariam; ac tam inscriptis quam in posterum inscribendis iisdem in Societatibus Ssmae Crucis sodalibus, qui in propria respectivae Societatis Ecclesia piaculari processioni, item vere poenitentes et confessi ac S. Communione refecti, quotannis intererint feria sexta maioris hebdomadae, praeter indulgentias Stationis, item plenariam omnium peccatorum suorum indulgentiam et remissionem misericorditer in Domino concedimus. Tandem iisdem nunc et in posterum dictas in Societatis rite adlectis sodalibus, qui, contrito saltem corde, singulis annis die festo Ssmi Iesu Nominis, videlicet secunda post Epiphaniam Dominica, pariterque Dominica Passionis et feriis sextis intra Quadragesimam, propriam Societatis respectivae Ecclesiam, uti superius diximus, preces fundentes visitent, de numero poenalium in forma Ecclesiae solita septem annos totidemque quadragenas expungimus. Veniam praeterea, apostolica Nostra auctoritate, facimus, ex qua Associationibus Ssmae Crucis rite Primariae aggregatis ubique terrarum, communicari queant Stationum indulgentiae quibus Sessoriana Basilica gaudet, ita ut fideles ipsi in Associationes adlecti, qui singulis annis, dominicis secunda Adventus et quarta Quadragesimae, nec non feria quarta hebdomadae maioris propriam respectivae Societatis Ecclesiam visitent et reliqua, quae iniuncta sunt, pietatis opera praestent, Stationum indulgentias lucrari queant non minus quam si illa ipsa die Sessorianam Basilicam inviserent. Porro largimur sodalibus ipsis, si malint, liceat plenariis his ac partialibus indulgentiis functorum vita labes poenasque expiare. Non obstantibus contrariis quibuscumque. Praesentibus perpetuis futuris temporibus valituris. Volumus autem, ut praesentium Litterarum transumptis, seu exemplis, etiam impressis, manu alicuius notarii publici subscriptis ac sigillo personae in ecclesiastica dignitate vel officio constitutae munitis, eadem prorsus fides adhibeatur, quae adhiberetur ipsis praesentibus si forent exhibitae vel

ostensae.

Datum Romae apud S. Petrum, sub annulo Piscatoris, die XXIV martii MCMXVII, Pontificatus Nostri anno tertio.

P. CARD. GASPARRI, a Secretis Status.

REVIEWS AND NOTES

A MANUAL OF MODERN SCHOLASTIC PHILOSOPHY. By Cardinal Mercier and Professors of the Higher Institute of Philosophy, Louvain. Volume I. Authorized translation and Eighth Edition by T. L. Parker, M.A., and S. A. Parker, O.S.B., M.A., with a Preface by P. Coffey, Ph.D. (Louvain), Professor of Philosophy at Maynooth College, Ireland. London: Kegan Paul.

EVERYTHING Worth saying for or against this volume has been already set forth in the pages of the Tablet during the controversy that followed on its appearance, last January. I shall not be straying from my task, therefore, in traversing the points made in that interesting discussion. Not that I intend to follow up all its details: I shall be content to define it sufficiently for the purpose of laying down a general view which can be explained more clearly in subsequent paragraphs dealing with the contents of our volume.

Father Michael Maher, S.J., gave a hearty and generous welcome to this translation on the last week of January in the Tablet. He drew attention to the fact that most of the present volume was a summary of works written by Cardinal Mercier: the Psychology, the Criteriology, and the Ontology. This gave him an opportunity of insisting on the characteristic features of the Cardinal's contribution to the revival of Scholastic Philosophy: loyalty to the teaching of St. Thomas combined with large and liberal sympathy towards modern progress both in science and in philosophy. 'While, on the one hand, he [Cardinal Mercier] has ever been a most faithful and ardent disciple of St. Thomas of Aquin, on the other, he has imbibed too deeply the genuine spirit of the great medieval thinker, who had baptized and popularized the pagan Aristotle, to imagine that there is not room for progress in philosophical thought, that the frontiers were reached in the thirteenth century, and that subsequent difficulties and problems can be adequately solved by a mere restatement of the dicta of even the greatest of the Schoolmen.' And as the Cardinal had imbued with his own spirit the band of professors gathered round him, these ideals animated every branch of study organized at the Higher Institute of Philosophy. Still, this warm appreciation of the general merits of the Louvain school did not blind Father Maher to two notable defects of the present volume: the lack of fuller treatment of various mental processes in the Psychology; the absence of all reference to the most recent discoveries of physics and chemistry in the Cosmology. The following week, Dr. Vance, Professor of Philosophy at Old Hall,

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