# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_M rz 1912_S102
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

102 Das römisch-katholische Glaubensbekenntnis und die Religionsfreiheit.

Verbreitung der Ketzerverfolgungen. Unter Karl V. wurden allein in
den Niederlanden über 50,000 Personen durch die Inquisition getötet.
In Spanien sind im ganzen, nach den 1834 veröffentlichten Berichten,
von 1481 an durch die Inquisition (inquisitio haeréticae pravitatis)

livered up, after their condemnation, to the secular powers or to their
oflicers, to be punished according to their demerits, the clerks being first
degraded, that their goods sball be confiscated, if they be laics, and if
clerks, then they shall be applied to the use of the Church; that those
Who lie under violent suspicions of heresy shall be likewise anathematized,
if they do not give proofs of their innocence, and they shall be avoided
till they have given satisfaction; and if they be in a state of excommuni⸗
cation during a year, they shall be condemned as hereties; that the lords
shall be admonished and advised by eeclesiastical censureés to take an oath
that they will extirpate hereties and excommunicate persons Wwho shall be
within their territories; that if they neglect to do it after admonition,
they shall be excommunicated by the metropolitan and bishops of the
province; and in case they persist aà year without making satisfaction,
the sovereign pontiff shall be advised theéreof, that so he may declare his
vassals absolved from their oath of fealty, and bestow their lands upon
such Catholics as will seize upon them, who shall be the lawful possessors
of them by extirpating heretics and preserving the purity of the faith in
them, but without prejudice to the right of the superior lord, provided
he offer no obstruction or hindrance to the putting this ordinance in exe-
cution. The same indulgences are granteéd to those Catholies as shall
undertake to extirpate heretics by force of drms as aré granted to those
who go to the Holy Land. They excommunicated those Wwho entertained,
protected, or supported hereties, and declare that those who shall be ex⸗
communicated upon that account, if they do not make satisfaction within
year, shall be declared infamous, and divested of all offices, as well as
of votes in the elections, that they shall not be admitted as evidences;
that they shall be deprived of the faculty of making a will, or succeeding
to an estate, and, lastly, that they may not perform the functions of any
office. Tis likewise further ordered that those who will not avoid the
company of such persons as are by the Church denounced excommunicate
shall be excommunicated themselves till they have given satisfaction. But,
above all, ecclesiastics are forbidden to administer the sacraments to them,
to give them Christian burial, to receive their alms or oblations, upon
pain of being suspended from the functions of their orderx, wherein they
may not be réeestablished without a special indulto from the pope. The
same punishment is likewise inflicted on the regulars, and besides this,
that they be not any longer tolerated in the diocese wherein they have
committed such à fact. All those are excommunicated who shall dare to
preach without having received a license from the Holy See or a Catholie
bishop. Lately, the archbishops and bishops are obliged to visit in person,
or by their archdeacons or by other persons, once or twice a vear, the
dioceses where it is reported that there are any hereties, and to put aà cer-
tain number of inhabitants under their oath to diseover to the bishop such
heretics as may be detected. They are likewise enjoined to cause the ac⸗