An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church

by Henry Charles Lea

[1524] V. Pontas, Dict. de Cas de Conscience, I. 836.

[1525] Conc. Trident. Sess. XIV. De Pœnitent. c. vi.

[1526] Del Bene de Offic. S. Inquisit. P. II. Dub. CCXXXVII. § ix. No. 6.

[1527] Cozza, op. cit. Dub. XXXIII.

[1528] Mag. Bull. Roman. Tom. VI. App. p. 1.

[1529] Synod. Camerac. ann. 1661 c. xi. (Hartzheim IX. 888).—Synodicon Mechliniense II. 319.

[1530] Ibid. I. 559.

[1531] Synod. Namurcens. ann. 1698 c. xxviii. (Hartzheim X. 219).

[1532] Synod. Bisuntin. ann. 1707 Tit. XIV. c. xiv. (Ibid. 323).

[1533] Pontas, Dict. de Cas de Conscience Paris, 1741, T. I. p. 837.—From the German edition of Amort (Dict. selectt. Casuum Conscientiæ, Aug. Vind. 1733) we learn that the state of the canon law on this subject was the same in Germany as in France.