Peru as It Is, Volume 2 (of 2): A Residence in Lima, and Other Parts of the Peruvian Republic, Comprising an Account of the Social and Physical Features of That CountrySmith, Archibald
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Peru as It Is, Volume 2 (of 2): A Residence in Lima, and Other Parts of the Peruvian Republic, Comprising an Account of the Social and Physical Features of That Country
Smith, Archibald
Peru -- Description and travel
In like manner we concede that voyagers and travellers may
enjoy the same indulgence immediately that, on returning to
their homes, they put in practice the above-named works,
and visit twice the cathedral church, either the greater or
parochial, of the place of their residence. We also grant to
the regulars of both sexes who live in perpetual seclusion, and
all laical persons who, from being in gaols or prisons, or on
account of corporeal infirmity, or any other impediment, shall
not be able to practise all or any of the works mentioned, that
a confessor of those actually approved by the local ordinaries
may commute these works into others of a pious kind, or
prorogue them to some other early period, and impose on them
those which the penitents themselves can exercise; and that
he may also dispense the communion to children who shall have
never communicated.
We further concede licence and authority to all and to each
of the faithful Christians, seculars or regulars, of whatever
order or institute, though the particular denomination should
be specified, that they may choose, for the expressed object,
any confessor, secular or regular, of those actually approved
by the ordinaries, (as also to the nuns, who may choose any
confessor of those approved for them, whether the nun be a
novitiate or a profesa,) who can absolve them, and liberate
them at the tribunal of conscience, and for this time only,
from the censures of excommunication, suspension, and other
ecclesiastical penalties, for whatever reason enjoined or
imposed, either _jure vel ab homine_; and also from all their
sins, excesses, crimes, and delinquencies, however grave and
enormous they may be, even when they shall have been especially
reserved to the local ordinaries, or to us and the apostolical
chair, and whose absolution on the other hand should not be
considered as granted in the most ample concession; moreover,
they may commute into other pious and salutary works all manner
of vows, though these may have been made with an oath, and the
power of dispensation regarding them reserved to the apostolic
chair,—always excepting the vow of religion and chastity, and
the bonds (obligatorios) accepted by a third person, or from
the commutation of which an injury would follow to another,
as also those penal acts which are called preservatives from
sin,—unless the future commutation be presumed to be not less
sufficient to separate from sin than the first matter of the
vow, imposing salutary penance in the above-said cases, and
such other particulars as the confessor may be pleased to
enjoin.
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