monitum
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A monitum is a warning issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to an errant cleric, who is in danger of receiving an additional penalty.
Notable cases
=Teilhard de Chardin=
The writings, not named but described as "gaining a good deal of success", including some published posthumously, of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin were the subject of a monitum by the Holy Office in June 1962, seven years after Teilhard's death.{{cite news | work = America | accessdate = 21 November 2017 | date = 21 November 2017 | first = Gerard | last = O'Connell | url = https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2017/11/21/will-pope-francis-remove-vaticans-warning-teilhard-de-chardins-writings | title = Will Pope Francis remove the Vatican's 'warning' from Teilhard de Chardin's writings? | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171122030118/https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2017/11/21/will-pope-francis-remove-vaticans-warning-teilhard-de-chardins-writings | archive-date = 22 November 2017 | url-status = dead }}
=The Danube Seven=
The Danube Seven – seven women on whom Rómulo Antonio Braschi, the founder of a schismatic community, attempted to confer priestly ordination on June 29, 2002 – were the target of a monitum dated 10 July 2002.{{cite book|editor-last1=Shafiq|editor-first1=Muhammad|editor-last2=Donlin-Smith|editor-first2=Thomas|last=Mroz |first=Kate|title=Making Gender in the Intersection of the Human and the Divine|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i1yJDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA271|year=2019|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|location=United Kingdom|isbn=978-1-5275-2794-2|page=271|chapter=Is it Necessary to Break the Rules? A Comparative Look at Amina Wadud and the Roman Catholic Womenpriests Movement}} The women were: Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger, Adelinde Theresia Roitinger, Gisela Forster, Iris Müller, Ida Raming, Pia Brunner, and Angela White (pseudonym of Dagmar Braun Celeste).[http://www.womenpriests.org/church/monitum.asp Monitum regarding the attempted priestly ordination of some Catholic women ]{{Cite web |title=Former Ohio First Lady Reveals A Secret |last=Vries |first=Lloyd |work=CBS News |date=17 October 2002 |access-date=17 May 2019 |url= https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-ohio-first-lady-reveals-a-secret/ }}
=Hans Küng=
In 1975, the CDF issued a monitum against certain of Hans Küng's writings.[http://aolsvc.timeforkids.kol.aol.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,912615-2,00.html Cracking Down on the Big Ones]{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
=Form criticism=
In 1961, the Holy Office issued a monitum against the use of form criticism in Catholic scriptural interpretation.[https://web.archive.org/web/20121025145051/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,828195-2,00.html The Bible: The Catholic Scholars]
=Vernacular publications of the Bible=
In 1856, a monitum was published under Pope Pius IX which re-iterated the ban on publishing vernacular editions of the Bible which had not been approved by the Pope or the competent church authority.[https://books.google.com/books?id=3BkEAAAAQAAJ&dq=monitum+catholic+-chardin+-braschi+-teilhard&pg=PA58 Correspondence on the Hereford Discussion]
See also
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