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Furthermore, the same most holy Synod of Basel, to avoid scandals and many dangers and to provide relief to fearful consciences, decrees that no one hereafter shall, on the occasion of any sentence or ecclesiastical censure, or suspension or prohibition generally promulgated by man or law, hold back from the communion of anyone in the administration or reception of sacraments, or in any other judgments or otherwise, nor avoid anyone, nor observe an ecclesiastical interdict, unless such sentence, prohibition, suspension, or ecclesiastical censure has been specially and expressly published or denounced by a judge against a person, college, university, church, or specific place. Or, if someone has so notoriously committed an act of excommunication that it cannot be hidden by any evasion nor excused by any defense of law. For as for the communion of such a one, one wishes to abstain according to canonical sanctions, yet by this the Synod does not intend to relieve such excommunicated, suspended, and interdicted or prohibited persons in any way, nor to favor them.
Since many scandals have been accustomed to arise from the indiscreet promulgation of interdicts, this holy synod decrees that no city, town, castle, village, or ecclesiastical place can be placed under interdict except for a cause or fault of the places themselves or of the lord or rector or officials. Truly, by reason of the fault or cause of any other private person, such places can by no means be interdicted by any authority, whether ordinary or delegated. Unless such a person has been first excommunicated or denounced, or published in the church, and the lords or rectors or officials, requested by the authority of the judge, have not effectively ejected such an excommunicated person from there or compelled him to make satisfaction. Once this person is ejected, or has departed or made satisfaction, divine services may soon be resumed, even if the Synod intends this to apply to preceding cases. By this constitution, however, we do not wish to abolish our previous constitution which begins "Sacri provincialis" original: "Sacri provincialis".
Experienced in this, we know that certain religious and secular priests, sowing the word of God in the churches of our city and diocese, sometimes moved by rancor against one another, do not fear to preach, to the scandal of the people and as a pernicious example. Considering that, just as error is often left behind by indiscreet silence, so too does reckless speech often induce error, we therefore inhibit by this present statute any preacher, whether religious or secular, in the monasteries and churches of our city and diocese, from preaching anything hereafter against another in the chancels. But if any of them should preach heresy, error, or anything else against the rights of another, let it be referred to us or to our vicar in spiritual matters, lest from such contention public scandals and dangers to souls arise among the people. Those who do otherwise shall not escape a grave and deserved penalty.