Entering a Clerical Career at the Roman Curia, 1458-1471 by Kirsi Salonen Jussi Hanska

Author:Kirsi Salonen, Jussi Hanska [Kirsi Salonen, Jussi Hanska]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Ancient, General
ISBN: 9781317142782
Google: 4FQfDAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-06T01:27:59+00:00

1 Of course not all defects were dispensable; if the defect was so severe that it really impeded the person from acting in his office or if it was so bad that it would cause problems in public, a dispensation could not be granted. For example, candidates who had a slight physical defect (like persons who limped slightly, who had a part of finger missing or who could not see perfectly but whose defects did not affect their capacity to say the mass or act in altar service) could be dispensed. On the other hand dwarfs, hunchbacks or persons with a clearly visible skin disease remained excluded from ordinations. Similarly the Church allowed men under the stipulated age by a couple of years to be ordained, but did not normally grant licences to be ordained more than two or three years before the minimum age. Also illegitimacy could be dispensed. Defect of knowledge was, however, such a severe impediment that it was hardly ever dispensed. A candidate with insufficient knowledge just had to study harder and try again later. Also the strict regulations concerning ordinations itself were sometimes dispensable. For example a person could have a dispensation to have more than one order at time – i.e. to be ordained more quickly than was normally allowed. Sometimes eager priest candidates got a dispensation that allowed them to be ordained extra tempora, i.e. outside the normal ordination days. Even the rule that only the diocesan bishop of the candidate could do the ordination could be dispensed and a man could be ordained by another bishop (or another cleric who had the authority). Concerning the petitions in the de promotis et promovendis category, see Schmugge et al., Die Pönitentiarie, pp. 196–204; Salonen, The Penitentiary, pp. 178–92.

2 As presented earlier in this chapter, the Penitentiary was not the only place where one could get such graces; other papal offices as well as the papal representatives in partibus had similar authority. As an example of graces granted at home we find in the register of Hadrian de Castello, bishop of Bath and Wells, a dispensation from a defect of age granted to a scholaris Nicholas Brown by the papal nuncio in England, John Peter Carapha, bishop and count of Chieti. The Registers of Oliver King, Bishop of Bath and Wells 1496–1503 and Hadrian de Castello, Bishop of Bath and Wells 1503–1518, edited by Sir Henry Maxwell-Lyte, Somerset Record Society, vol. 53 (Frome and London, 1939), no. 1138.

3 The faculty is edited in Göller I, 2, pp. 1–6.

4 The faculty is edited in Göller I, 2, p. 8.

5 Concerning the authority of the Penitentiary in granting dispensations in promotion matters, see Salonen, The Penitentiary, pp. 183–5.

6 The faculty is edited in Göller I, 2, pp. 35–6.

7 The faculties are edited in Göller I, 2, pp. 42, 44.

8 The faculty is edited in Göller I, 2, pp. 33–4.

9 Edited in Göller II, 2, p. 3: ‘Constitutio domini nostri Pii pape secundi contra promotos ante aetatem legitimam ab aliquo sine litteris dimissorialibus et extra tempora statuta.

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