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Bible Dictionaries
Canonical Admonitions
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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A preliminary means used by the Church towards a suspected person as a preventive of harm or a remedy of evil. A paternal admonition is a secret remonstrance addressed either by a prelate or his confidential delegate to a cleric suspected of misconduct on a basis of public rumor. A third paternal admonition having failed of effect, the way is paved for canonical or legal admonition, which is to a great extent akin to a summons to judgment and a recognized part of the "acts" of future procedure. In religious orders or congregations, admonitions are given by a competent religious superior, or by one delegated by him, to a religious who has committed serious, external misdemeanors, which, if not amended, will give sufficient grounds for instituting the judicial process of dismissal.
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Entry for 'Canonical Admonitions'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/c/canonical-admonitions.html. 1910.
