The excommunication which is made applicable to heretical writings is, for the most part, the _excommunicatio major_. This excludes the condemned from the Sacraments, and from the holding of office (as under the _excommunicatio minor_), and also excludes from public worship and from burial in consecrated ground; while it involves the loss of legal rights. It is also, as a rule, _latae_ (instead of _ferendae_) _sententiae_, that is, its authority goes into effect at once, as a necessary result of the sinful action, and without the requirement of a judgment.[89] The Jesuit Faure states that, in the earlier ages of the Church, the _censura latae sententiae_ was ordered but seldom, but since the 13th century, the instances of its use had very largely increased, and (in connection with the supervision of publications) had become almost a routine. _1770._ _Clement XIV_ orders that the yearly publication of the Bull be discontinued, but the Bull itself was not recalled or modified. _1869. Oct._ _Pius IX_ issues a Bull recalling or modifying certain of the provisions of the _Coenae Domini_.[90] Peignot (writing in 1806) speaks of this as “an inconceivable Bull rejected by France and by nearly all of the Catholic States and very properly condemned to eternal oblivion.” He goes on to say that “Rome no longer lays claim to the chimerical right of disposing crowns and of controlling kings. It is to-day more sparing of those invisible thunder-blasts which in times past have caused sovereigns to tremble.”[91] Cardinal Erskine, speaking in 1815, declares the Bull to be “implicitly in vigour in all its extension,” and defines it as a “public declaration to preserve the rights of the Pope.” Dr. Sleven, the Prefect of the Dunboyne Establishment, speaking in 1826, states that “the publication of the Bull during the coming year is something entirely within the option of the Pope.”[92] Count Ferdinand dal Pozzo, a Roman Catholic, writing (in Vienna) in 1825, says: “The reading of the Bull, originally ordered for every year at Rome on Holy Thursday (Maundy Thursday), was suspended by Clement XIV, to avoid giving offence to crowned heads.” Mendham,[93] in quoting dal Pozzo, points out that the Bull itself (which, he says “contains a series of the most absurd pretensions) was not revoked. Permission is still granted to absolve in the cases reserved in this Bull.” CHAPTER VI THE ROMAN INQUISITION AND THE CONGREGATION OF THE INDEX.