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of morals or ecclesiastical discipline, were decreed "saving the authority of the Holy See" (Sess. xxv. cap. 21, de ref.). At the same time, it was laid down in respect of all dispensations, whether papal or other, that they were to be granted only for just and urgent causes, or in view of some decided benefit to the Church urgens justaque causa et major quandoque utilitas, and in all cases for free. Payment of money for a dispensation would void the dispensation (Sess. xxv. cap. 18, de ref.). The power to dispense lies with the original

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