13 If a confessor sitting in a confessional solicits a woman standing before him without pretext of confession he is probably not liable to denunciation.
14 A confessor who makes during confession a present to the penitent, without evil intention is not liable to denunciation; otherwise he is.—Berardi de Sollicitatione, p. 5.
[226] Bullar. Roman. T. VI, Append. p. 1.
[227] Bullar. Benedicti PP. XIV, T. I, p. 23-4.
[228] Bullar. Roman. ubi sup.
[229] Bullar. Benedicti PP. XIV, loc. cit.
[230] Archivo hist. nacional, Inq. de Toledo, Leg. 1; Inq. de Valencia, Leg. 365, n. 46.—Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Lib. 890.
[231] Joh. Sánchez Disputt. Select., Disp. xi, n. 3, 4.—Juan Sánchez was one of the laxer moral theologians of the seventeenth century, some of whose propositions incurred papal censure, but this escaped. Hurter characterizes him as “in morum doctrina versatissimus.”—Nomenclator Theol. Cathol. I, 414.
[232] Ant. de Sousa, Tract. II, cap. XX.—Berardi de Sollicitatione, p. 129.—Il Consulente Ecclesiastico, Vol. IV, p. 19 (1899).—S. Alph. de Ligorio Theol. Moral. Lib. VII, n. 519. Podestà, however, tells us that in his time, in the diocese of Naples, it was reserved to the bishop.—Examen ecclesiasticum, T. II, n. 601 (Venetiis, 1728).
[233] Proceso contra el Dr. Pedro Mendizabal (MS. penes me).