The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-02
Mrs. Browning.
The Meaning of accommodation.


The question of the late Father Tyr
relIe accommodation from the
church having been raised by his death
some weeks ago, a study of the subject
or accommodation as offered by the
latest volume of the Catholic EncyclO
paedla proves interesting reading. In
us tlrst and general sense, it means
exclusion from communion, depriving
the guilty Christian of all participa-
uon in the common blessings of &C.
clesiastical society. 1t is the most
serious penalty the Church can inflict,
and 1t is a medicinal rather than a
Vindictive penalty, says the Encyclo-
paedist, inasmuch as it is intended not
so much to punish the culprit as to
correct him and bring him back to the
patch of righteousness.
Since communication is the for
TEXTURE of the spiritual privileges o.
ecclesiastical society. all those may be
communicated who by any right
whatsoever. belong to this society.
The Church accommodates not
only those who abandon the true
faith to embrace schism or heresy, but
likewise the members of heretical and
schismatic communities who have been
born therein. Catholics, on the con-
trary, cannot be communicated I'M
less for some personal, grievously Of
fensive act. Thus internal failings,
e. G., doubts entertained against the
Catholic Faith, cannot incur eXcom-
munication. An external, or pub
lished doubt calls for the ban, how
ever, providing that all the conditions
prove the offender to be fully conscious
Of the evil he is doing and the nature
of his offence
The immediate effects of excommu-
nj ,f
lie services and prayers of the Church,
ecclesiastical burial, jurisdiction. ben
efices, canonical rights and social in
tercourse. The communicated per-
son who remains a year without any
effort to obtain absolution, becomes
suspected of heresy and can be fol-
lowed up and condemned as such.
communications specially re-
served to the Pope are twelve in num-
Der, the main among which are the
following: All apostates from the
Christian Faith, all heretics or recu-
SAINTS to explicit Catholic dogma, and
all who defend them. All who know
ingly read books written by these same
apostates and heretics, without es-
pecial permission. These books are
mentioned for the most part in the
Index or by especial Bull. All who
wilfully and obstinately withdraw from
the authority Of the reigning Pope.
All who kill. mutilate, strike, sieze,
incareerate, detaind or pursue cardin-
ais, archbishops, bishops, legatees or
nuncios. or those who abet such Of
tenders. All falsifiers of Apostolic
Letters or Briefs All who usurp or
seQuester the jurisdiction property or
revenues belonging to ecclesiastical
persons by reason of their churches
or benefices, and those who invade, de-
stroy or detain cities, lands. places or
rights of the Church. and all who abet
in such offences.
In communications simply re-
serve to the Pope, all defenders Of
teachings condemned by the Church.
are included; so also are those who
lay violent hands on, or assault, re-
ligious of either sex, duellists, free
rnasons or other members of anti
Catholic societies, those guilty of ST.
mony, those who steal relics from Ro-
man shrines and those VINO assist an
communicated person in his often
ces. BY section % Of the Council of
Trent, all are communicated who
unjustly oblige a woman to enter a
convent against her will, or who pre-
vent her from doing so. should she
wish