ABSTRACT
A LL plunderers of the Church and those who remove her goods are banned from the threshold of our holy mother, and by apostolic authority are driven away, condemned, and pronounced as sacrilegious (Canon Laws, c.XVII, q.4). Also if anyone gives to another, or accepts, what has been devoted to God, unless it is for the distribution of charity to the poor by the consent of the bishop or his deputy, let both the giver and the taker be cursed (Canon Laws, c.XVI, q.l). Those also who hold Church possessions by the command and dispensation of princes or certain powerful individuals, or by some aggression or tyrannical might, and, as we have already seen done, bequeath them to their sons or heirs as though they were heritable, unless they at once admit the truth when admonished by the bishop and restore what belongs to God, let them be struck with an everlasting curse. It is also profoundly unjust that whatever gifts each person has left to the venerable Church for the redemption of sinners or for the salvation and repose of their own souls should be allowed by Christians and God-fearing men to be transferred or turned to another purpose, etc. Pope Urban condemns the sacrilegious to everlasting disgrace, or prison, or to be banished in perpetual exile.
