A monitum is a warning issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith , previously known as the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition , and after 1904 called the Supreme...

 to an errant cleric, who is in danger of receiving an additional penalty.

Teilhard de Chardin

Several works of Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ was a French philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of both Piltdown Man and Peking Man. Teilhard conceived the idea of the Omega Point and developed Vladimir Vernadsky's concept of Noosphere...

 were the subject of a monitum by the Holy Office in 1962.

Romulo Antonio Braschi

On June 29, 2002, Romulo Antonio Braschi

Rómulo Antonio Braschi

Rómulo Antonio Braschi is an Argentine Independent Catholic bishop, not in communion with the Vatican.Born in Buenos Aires, and ordained a Roman Catholic priest in August 1966, he was associated with members of the worker-priest movement in Argentina and the Movimiento de Sacerdotes para el Tercer...

, the founder of a schismatic community, attempted to confer priestly ordination on the following Catholic women : Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger

Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger

Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger is a teacher and former Benedictine nun who was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church when she and six others were allegedly, though not canonically or validly, ordained as priests by an Independent Catholic Bishop in 2002, called herself a Roman Catholic priest...

, Adelinde Theresia Roitinger, Gisela Forster, Iris Müller, Ida Raming

Ida Raming

Ida Raming is a German author, teacher and Catholic theologian.- Life :After school Raming studied Catholic theology, philosophy and pedagogy at University of Munster and University of Freiburg. She finished university in 1973 and worked as a teacher in Germany...

, Pia Brunner and Angela White.

Form criticism

In 1961, the Holy Office issued a monitum against the use of form criticism

Form criticism

Form criticism is a method of biblical criticism that classifies units of scripture by literary pattern and that attempts to trace each type to its period of oral transmission. Form criticism seeks to determine a unit's original form and the historical context of the literary tradition. Hermann...

 in Catholic scriptural interpretation.

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.