Canon 1364. §1 An apostate from the faith, a heretic or a schismatic incurs a latae sententiae excommunication, without prejudice to the provision of can. 194 §1 n. 2; he or she may also be punished with the penalties mentioned in can. 1336 §§2-4.

§2 If a long-standing contempt or the gravity of scandal calls for it, other penalties may be added, not excluding dismissal from the clerical state.

§1. Apostata a fide, haereticus vel schismaticus in excommunicationem latae sententiae incurrit, firmo praescripto can. 194,§1, n. 2; praeterea poenis, de quibus in can. 1336, §§2-4, puniri potest.

§2. Si diuturna contumacia vel scandali gravitas id postulet, aliae poenae addi possunt, non excepta dimissione e statu clericali.

Canon 1365. A person who, apart from the case mentioned in canon 1364 §1, teaches a doctrine condemned by the Roman Pontiff, or by an Ecumenical Council, or obstinately rejects the teaching mentioned in canon 750 §2 or canon 752 and, when warned by the
Apostolic See or the Ordinary, does not retract, is to be punished with a censure and deprivation of office; to these sanctions others mentioned in can. 1336 §§2-4 may be added.

Qui, praeter casum de quo in can. 1364,§1, doctrinam a Romano Pontifice vel a Concilio Oecumenico damnatam docet vel doctrinam, de qua in can. 750,§2, vel in can. 752, pertinaciter respuit, et ab Apostolica Sede vel ab Ordinario admonitus non retractat, censura puniatur et privatione officii; his sanctionibus aliae addi possunt de quibus in can. 1336, §§2-4.

Canon 1366. A person who appeals from an act of the Roman Pontiff to an Ecumenical
Council or to the College of Bishops is to be punished with a censure.

Qui contra Romani Pontificis actum ad Concilium Oecumenicum vel ad Episcoporum collegium recurrit censura puniatur.

Canon 1367. Parents and those taking the place of parents who hand over their children to be baptised or brought up in a non-Catholic religion are to be punished with a censure or other just penalty.

Parentes vel parentum locum tenentes, qui liberos in religione acatholica baptizandos vel educandos tradunt, censura aliave iusta poena puniantur.

Canon 1368. A person is to be punished with a just penalty who, at a public event or assembly, or in a published writing, or by otherwise using the means of social communication, utters blasphemy, or gravely harms public morals, or rails at or excites hatred of or contempt for religion or the Church.

Qui in publico spectaculo vel concione, vel in scripto publice evulgato, vel aliter instrumentis communicationis socialis utens, blasphemiam profert, aut bonos mores graviter laedit, aut in religionem vel Ecclesiam iniurias exprimit vel odium contemptumve excitat, iusta poena puniatur.

Canon 1369. A person who profanes a sacred object, moveable or immovable, is to be punished with a just penalty.

Qui rem sacram, mobilem vel immobilem, profanat iusta poena puniatur.

Canon 1370. §1 A person who uses physical force against the Roman Pontiff incurs a latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See; if the offender is a cleric, another penalty, not excluding dismissal from the clerical state, may be added according to the gravity of the crime.

§2 One who does this against a Bishop incurs a latae sententiae interdict and, if a cleric, he incurs also a latae sententiae suspension.

§3 A person who uses physical force against a cleric or religious or another of Christ’s faithful out of contempt for the faith, or the Church, or ecclesiastical authority or the ministry, is to be punished with a just penalty.

§1. Qui vim physicam in Romanum Pontificem adhibet, in excommunicationem latae sententiae Sedi Apostolicae reservatam incurrit, cui, si clericus sit, alia poena, non exclusa dimissione e statu clericali, pro delicti gravitate addi potest.

§2. Qui id agit in eum qui episcopali charactere pollet, in interdictum latae sententiae et, si sit clericus, etiam in suspensionem latae sententiae incurrit.

§3. Qui vim physicam in clericum vel religiosum vel alium christifidelem adhibet in fidei vel Ecclesiae vel ecclesiasticae potestatis vel ministerii contemptum, iusta poena puniatur.

Canon 1371. §1 A person who does not obey the lawful command or prohibition of the
Apostolic See or the Ordinary or Superior and, after being warned, persists in disobedience, is to be punished, according to the gravity of the case, with a censure or deprivation of office or with other penalties mentioned in can. 1336, §§2-4.

§2 A person who violates obligations imposed by a penalty is to be punished with the penalties mentioned in can. 1336 §§2-4.

§3 A person who, in asserting or promising something before an ecclesiastical authority, commits perjury, is to be punished with a just penalty.

§4 A person who violates the obligation of observing the pontifical secret is to be punished with the penalties mentioned in can. 1336 §§2-4.

§5 A person who fails to observe the duty to execute an executive sentence is to be punished with a just penalty, not excluding a censure.

§6 A person who neglects to report an offence, when required to do so by a canonical law, is to be punished according to the provision of can. 1336 §§2-4, with the addition of other penalties according to the gravity of the offence.

§1. Qui Sedi Apostolicae, Ordinario vel Superiori legitime praecipienti vel prohibenti non obtemperat, et post monitionem in inoboedientia persistit, pro casus gravitate puniatur censura vel privatione officii vel aliis poenis de quibus in can. 1336, §§2-4.

§2. Qui obligationes sibi ex poena impositas violat, poenis de quibus in can. 1336, §§2-4, puniatur.

§3. Si quis, asserens vel promittens aliquid coram ecclesiastica auctoritate, periurium committit, iusta poena puniatur.

§4. Qui obligationem secreti pontificii servandi violat poenis de quibus in can. 1336, §§2-4, puniatur.

§5. Qui non servaverit officium exsequendi sententiam exsecutivam vel decretum poenale exsecutivum iusta poena puniatur, non exclusa censura.

§6. Qui communicare neglegit notitiam de delicto, cum ad id exsequendum lege canonica teneatur, puniatur ad normam can. 1336, §§2-4, adiunctis quoque aliis poenis pro delicti gravitate.

Canon 1372. The following are to be punished according to the provision of can. 1336 §§2-
4:

1° those who hinder the freedom of the ministry or the exercise of ecclesiastical power, or the lawful use of sacred things or ecclesiastical goods, or who intimidate one who has exercised ecclesiastical power or ministry;

2° those who hinder the freedom of an election or intimidate an elector or one who is elected.

Puniantur ad normam can. 1336, §§2-4:
1° qui impediunt libertatem ministerii vel exercitium potestatis ecclesiasticae aut legitimum rerum sacrarum vel bonorum ecclesiasticorum usum, aut perterrent eum qui potestatem vel ministerium ecclesiasticum exercuit;2° qui impediunt libertatem electionis aut perterrent electorem vel electum.

Canon 1373. A person who publicly incites hatred or animosity against the Apostolic See or the Ordinary because of some act of ecclesiastical office or duty, or who provokes disobedience against them, is to be punished by interdict or other just penalties.

Qui publice simultates vel odia adversus Sedem Apostolicam vel Ordinarium excitat propter aliquem officii vel muneris ecclesiastici actum, aut ad inoboedientiam in eos provocat, interdicto vel aliis iustis poenis puniatur.

Canon 1374. A person who joins an association which plots against the Church is to be punished with a just penalty; one who promotes or takes office in such an association is to be punished with an interdict.

Qui nomen dat consociationi, quae contra Ecclesiam machinatur, iusta poena puniatur; qui autem eiusmodi consociationem promovet vel moderatur, interdicto puniatur.

Canon 1375. §1 Anyone who usurps an ecclesiastical office is to be punished with a just penalty.

§2 The unlawful retention of an office after being deprived of it, or ceasing from it, is equivalent to usurpation.

§1. Quicumque officium ecclesiasticum usurpat, iusta poena puniatur.

§2. Usurpationi aequiparatur illegitima, post privationem vel cessationem a munere, eiusdem retentio.

Canon 1376. §1. The following are to be punished with the penalties mentioned in can. 1336
§§2-4, without prejudice to the obligation of repairing the harm:

1° a person who steals ecclesiastical goods or prevents their proceeds from being received;

2° a person who without the prescribed consultation, consent, or permission, or without another requirement imposed by law for validity or for lawfulness, alienates ecclesiastical goods or carries out an act of administration over them.

§2 The following are to be punished, not excluding by deprivation of office, without prejudice to the obligation of repairing the harm:

1° a person who through grave personal culpability commits the offence mentioned in §1, n. 2;

2° a person who is found to have been otherwise gravely negligent in administering ecclesiastical goods.

§1. Poenis de quibus in can. 1336, §§2-4, puniatur, firma damnum reparandi obligatione:

1° qui bona ecclesiastica subtrahit vel impedit ne eorundem fructus percipiantur;

2° qui sine praescripta consultatione, consensu vel licentia aut sine alio requisito iure ad validitatem vel ad liceitatem imposito bona ecclesiastica alienat vel in ea actus administrationis exsequitur.

§2. Iusta poena puniatur, non exclusa officii privatione, firma damnum reparandi obligatione:

1° qui delictum de quo in§1, n. 2, ex sua gravi culpa committit;

2° qui aliter graviter neglegens in bonis ecclesiasticis administrandis repertus fuerit.

Canon 1377. §1 A person who gives or promises something so that someone who exercises an office or function in the Church would unlawfully act or fail to act is to be punished according to the provision of can. 1336 §§2-4; likewise, the person who accepts such gifts or promises is to be punished according to the gravity of the offence, not excluding by deprivation of office, without prejudice to the obligation of repairing the harm.

§2 A person who in the exercise of an office or function requests an offering beyond that which has been established, or additional sums, or something for his or her own benefit, is to be punished with an appropriate monetary fine or with other penalties, not excluding deprivation of office, without prejudice to the obligation of repairing the harm.

§1. Qui quidvis donat vel pollicetur ut aliquis officium vel munus in Ecclesia exercens, illegitime quid agat vel omittat, iusta poena puniatur ad normam can. 1336, §§2-4; item qui ea dona vel pollicitationes acceptat pro delicti gravitate puniatur, non exclusa officii privatione, firma damnum reparandi obligatione.

§2. Qui in officio vel munere exercendo stipem ultra definitam aut summas adiunctivas aut aliquid in sui utilitatem requirit, congruenti mulcta pecuniaria vel aliis poenis, non exclusa officii privatione, puniatur, firma damnum reparandi obligatione.

Canon 1378. §1 A person who, apart from the cases already foreseen by the law, abuses ecclesiastical power, office, or function, is to be punished according to the gravity of the
act or the omission, not excluding by deprivation of the power or office, without prejudice to the obligation of repairing the harm.

§2 A person who, through culpable negligence, unlawfully and with harm to another or scandal, performs or omits an act of ecclesiastical power or office or function, is to be punished according to the provision of can. 1336 §§2-4, without prejudice to the obligation of repairing the harm.

§1. Qui, praeter casus iure iam praevisos, ecclesiastica potestate, officio vel munere abutitur, pro actus vel omissionis gravitate puniatur, non exclusa eorundem privatione, firma damnum reparandi obligatione.

§2. Qui vero, ex culpabili neglegentia, ecclesiasticae potestatis vel officii vel muneris actum illegitime cum damno alieno vel scandalo ponit vel omittit, iusta poena puniatur ad normam can. 1336, §§2-4, firma damnum reparandi obligatione.

Canon 1379. §1 The following incur a latae sententiae interdict or, if a cleric, also a latae sententiae suspension:

1° a person who, not being an ordained priest, attempts the liturgical celebration of the
Eucharistic Sacrifice;

2° a person who, apart from the case mentioned in can. 1384, though unable to give valid sacramental absolution, attempts to do so, or hears a sacramental confession.

§2 In the cases mentioned in §1, other penalties, not excluding excommunication, can be added, according to the gravity of the offence.

§3 Both a person who attempts to confer a sacred order on a woman, and the woman who attempts to receive the sacred order, incur a latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See; a cleric, moreover, may be punished by dismissal from the clerical state.

§4 A person who deliberately administers a sacrament to those who are prohibited from receiving it is to be punished with suspension, to which other penalties mentioned in can.
1336 §§2-4 may be added.

§5 A person who, apart from the cases mentioned in §§1-4 and in can. 1384, pretends to administer a sacrament is to be punished with a just penalty.

§1. In poenam latae sententiae interdicti vel, si clericus sit, etiam suspensionis incurrit:

1° qui ad ordinem sacerdotalem non promotus liturgicam eucharistici Sacrificii actionem attentat;

2° qui, praeter casum de quo in can. 1384, cum sacramentalem absolutionem dare valide nequeat, eam impertire attentat, vel sacramentalem confessionem audit.

§2. In casibus de quibus in§1, pro delicti gravitate, aliae poenae, non exclusa excommunicatione, addi possunt.

§3. Tum qui sacrum ordinem mulieri conferre attentaverit, tum mulier quae sacrum ordinem recipere attentaverit, in excommunicationem latae sententiae Sedi Apostolicae reservatam incurrit; clericus praeterea dimissione e statu clericali puniri potest.

§4. Qui deliberate sacramentum administrat illis qui recipere prohibentur, puniatur suspensione, cui aliae poenae ex can. 1336, §§2-4, addi possunt.

§5. Qui, praeter casus de quibus in §§1-4 et in can. 1384, sacramentum se administrare simulat, iusta poena puniatur.

Canon 1380. A person who through simony celebrates or receives a sacrament is to be punished with an interdict or suspension or the penalties mentioned in can. 1336 §§2-4.

Qui per simoniam sacramentum celebrat vel recipit, interdicto vel suspensione vel poenis de quibus in can. 1336, §§2-4, puniatur.

Canon 1381. One who is guilty of prohibited participation in religious rites is to be punished with a just penalty.

Reus vetitae communicationis in sacris iusta poena puniatur.

Canon 1382. — §1 One who throws away the consecrated species or, for a sacrilegious purpose, takes them away or keeps them, incurs a latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See; a cleric, moreover, may be punished with some other penalty, not excluding dismissal from the clerical state.
[NB see Authentic Interpretation of former canon 1367, 3.VII.1999]

§2 A person guilty of consecrating for a sacrilegious purpose one element only or both elements within the Eucharistic celebration or outside it is to be punished according to the gravity of the offence, not excluding by dismissal from the clerical state.

§1. Qui species consecratas abicit aut in sacrilegum finem abducit vel retinet, in excommunicationem latae sententiae Sedi Apostolicae reservatam incurrit; clericus praeterea alia poena, non exclusa dimissione e statu clericali, puniri potest.

§2. Reus consecrationis in sacrilegum finem unius materiae vel utriusque in eucharistica celebratione aut extra eam pro gravitate delicti puniatur non exclusa dimissione e statu clericali.

Canon 1383. A person who unlawfully traffics in Mass offerings is to be punished with a censure or with the penalties mentioned in can. 1336 §§2-4.

Qui quaestum illegitime facit ex Missae stipe, censura vel poenis de quibus in can. 1336, §§2-4, puniatur.

Canon 1384. A priest who acts against the prescription of can. 977 incurs a latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See.

Sacerdos qui contra praescriptum can. 977 agit, in excommunicationem latae sententiae Sedi Apostolicae reservatam incurrit.

Canon 1385. A priest who in confession, or on the occasion or under the pretext of confession, solicits a penitent to commit a sin against the sixth commandment of the
Decalogue, is to be punished, according to the gravity of the offence, with suspension, prohibitions and deprivations; in the more serious cases he is to be dismissed from the clerical state.

Sacerdos, qui in actu vel occasione vel praetextu confessionis paenitentem ad peccatum contra sextum Decalogi praeceptum sollicitat, pro delicti gravitate, suspensione, prohibitionibus, privationibus puniatur, et in casibus gravioribus dimittatur e statu clericali.

Canon 1386. §1 A confessor who directly violates the sacramental seal incurs a latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See; he who does so only indirectly is to be punished according to the gravity of the offence.

§2 Interpreters, and the others mentioned in can. 983 §2, who violate the secret are to be punished with a just penalty, not excluding excommunication.

§3 Without prejudice to the provisions of §§1 and 2, any person who by means of any technical device makes a recording of what is said by the priest or by the penitent in a sacramental confession, either real or simulated, or who divulges it through the means of social communication, is to be punished according to the gravity of the offence, not excluding, in the case of a cleric, by dismissal from the clerical state.

§1. Confessarius, qui sacramentale sigillum directe violat, in excommunicationem latae sententiae Sedi Apostolicae reservatam incurrit; qui vero indirecte tantum, pro delicti gravitate puniatur.

§2. Interpres aliique, de quibus in can. 983,§2, qui secretum violant, iusta poena puniantur, non exclusa excommunicatione.

§3. Firmis praescriptis §§1 et 2, quicumque quovis technico instrumento captat aut in communicationis socialis mediis malitiose evulgat quae in sacramentali confessione, vera vel ficta, a confessario vel a paenitente dicuntur, pro gravitate delicti puniatur, non exclusa, si de clerico agatur, dimissione e statu clericali.

Canon 1387. Both the Bishop who, without a pontifical mandate, consecrates a person a
Bishop, and the one who receives the consecration from him, incur a latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See.

Episcopus qui sine pontificio mandato aliquem consecrat in Episcopum, itemque qui ab eo consecrationem recipit, in excommunicationem latae sententiae Sedi Apostolicae reservatam incurrunt.

Canon 1388. §1 A Bishop who, contrary to the provision of can. 1015, ordained someone else’s subject without the lawful dimissorial letters, is prohibited from conferring orders for one year. The person who received the order is ipso facto suspended from the order received.

§2. A person who comes forward for sacred orders bound by some censure or irregularity which he voluntarily conceals is ipso facto suspended from the order received, apart from what is established in canon 1044, §2, n. 1.

§1. Episcopus qui, contra praescriptum can. 1015, alienum subditum sine legitimis litteris dimissoriis ordinavit, prohibetur per annum ordinem conferre. Qui vero ordinationem recepit, est ipso facto a recepto ordine suspensus.

§2. Qui ad sacros ordines accedit innodatus quadam censura vel irregularitate, voluntarie reticita, praeter id quod statuitur in can. 1044,§2, n. 1, est ipso facto a recepto ordine suspensus.

Canon 1389. A person who, apart from the cases mentioned in can. 1379-1388, unlawfully exercises the office of a priest or another sacred ministry, is to be punished with a just penalty, not excluding a censure.


Qui, praeter casus, de quibus in can. 1379‑1388, sacerdotale munus vel aliud sacrum ministerium illegitime exsequitur, iusta poena puniatur, non exclusa censura.

Canon 1390. §1 A person who falsely denounces a confessor of the offence mentioned in can. 1385 to an ecclesiastical Superior incurs a latae sententiae interdict and, if a cleric, he incurs also a suspension.

§2 A person who calumniously denounces some other offence to an ecclesiastical
Superior, or otherwise unlawfully injures the good name of another, is to be punished according to the provision of can. 1336 §§2-4, to which moreover a censure may be added.

§3 The calumniator must also be compelled to make appropriate amends.

§1. Qui confessarium de delicto, de quo in can. 1385, apud ecclesiasticum Superiorem falso denuntiat, in interdictum latae sententiae incurrit et, si clericus sit, etiam in suspensionem.

§2. Qui aliam ecclesiastico Superiori calumniosam praebet delicti denuntiationem, vel aliter alterius bonam famam illegitime laedit, iusta poena puniatur ad normam can. 1336, §§2-4, cui praeterea censura addi potest.

§3. Calumniator cogi debet etiam ad congruam satisfactionem praestandam.

Canon 1391. The following are to be punished with the penalties mentioned in can. 1336
§§2-4, according to the gravity of the offence:

1° a person who composes a false public ecclesiastical document, or who changes, destroys, or conceals a genuine one, or who uses a false or altered one;

2° a person who in an ecclesiastical matter uses some other false or altered document;

3° a person who, in a public ecclesiastical document, asserts something false.

Poenis de quibus in can. 1336, §§2-4, pro delicti gravitate puniatur:

1° qui ecclesiasticum documentum publicum falsum conficit, vel verum mutat, destruit, occultat, vel falso vel mutato utitur;

2° qui alio falso vel mutato documento utitur in re ecclesiastica;

3° qui in publico ecclesiastico documento falsum asserit.

Canon 1392. A cleric who voluntarily and unlawfully abandons the sacred ministry, for six months continuously, with the intention of withdrawing himself from the competent
Church authority, is to be punished, according to the gravity of the offence, with suspension or additionally with the penalties established in can. 1336 §§2-4, and in the more serious cases may be dismissed from the clerical state.

Clericus qui sacrum ministerium voluntarie et illegitime relinquit, per sex menses continuos, cum animo sese subducendi a competenti Ecclesiae auctoritate, pro delicti gravitate, suspensione vel etiam poenis in can. 1336, §§2-4, statutis puniatur, et in casibus gravioribus dimitti potest e statu clericali.

Canon 1393. §1 A cleric or religious who engages in trading or business contrary to the provisions of the canons is to be punished with the penalties mentioned in can. 1336 §§2-
4, according to the gravity of the offence.

§2 A cleric or religious who, apart from the cases already foreseen by the law, commits an offence in a financial matter, or gravely violates the stipulations contained in can. 285 §4, is to be punished with the penalties mentioned in can. 1336 §§2-4, without prejudice to the obligation of repairing the harm.

§1. Clericus vel religiosus mercaturam vel negotiationem contra canonum praescripta exercens pro delicti gravitate puniatur poenis de quibus in can. 1336, §§2-4.

§2. Clericus vel religiosus qui, praeter casus iure iam praevisos, in re oeconomica delictum committit, vel graviter violat praescriptiones, quae in can. 285,§4, recensentur, poenis de quibus in can. 1336, §§2-4, puniatur, firma damnum reparandi obligatione.

Canon 1394. §1 A cleric who attempts marriage, even if only civilly, incurs a latae sententiae suspension, without prejudice to the provisions of can. 194 §1 n. 3, and 694 §1 n. 2. If, after warning, he has not reformed or continues to give scandal, he must be progressively punished by deprivations, or even by dismissal from the clerical state.

§2 Without prejudice to the provisions of can. 694 §1 n. 2, a religious in perpetual vows who is not a cleric but who attempts marriage, even if only civilly, incurs a latae sententiae interdict.

§1. Clericus matrimonium, etiam civiliter tantum, attentans, in suspensionem latae sententiae incurrit, firmis praescriptis can. 194,§1, n. 3, et 694,§1, n. 2; quod si monitus non resipuerit vel scandalum dare perrexerit, gradatim privationibus vel etiam dimissione e statu clericali puniri debet.

§2. Religiosus a votis perpetuis, qui non sit clericus, matrimonium etiam civiliter tantum attentans, in interdictum latae sententiae incurrit, firmo praescripto can. 694,§1, n. 2.

Canon 1395. §1 A cleric living in concubinage, other than in the case mentioned in can.
1394, and a cleric who continues in some other external sin against the sixth commandment of the Decalogue which causes scandal, is to be punished with suspension.
To this, other penalties can progressively be added if after a warning he persists in the offence, until eventually he can be dismissed from the clerical state.

§2 A cleric who has offended in other ways against the sixth commandment of the
Decalogue, if the offence was committed in public, is to be punished with just penalties, not excluding dismissal from the clerical state if the case so warrants.

§3 A cleric who by force, threats or abuse of his authority commits an offence against the sixth commandment of the Decalogue or forces someone to perform or submit to sexual acts is to be punished with the same penalty as in §2.

§1. Clericus concubinarius, praeter casum de quo in can. 1394, et clericus in alio peccato externo contra sextum Decalogi praeceptum cum scandalo permanens, suspensione puniantur, cui, persistente post monitionem delicto, aliae poenae gradatim addi possunt usque ad dimissionem e statu clericali.

§2. Clericus qui aliter contra sextum Decalogi praeceptum deliquerit, si quidem delictum publice patratum sit, iustis poenis puniatur, non exclusa, si casus ferat, dimissione e statu clericali.

§3. Eadem poena de qua in§2 puniatur clericus qui vi, minis vel abusu suae auctoritatis delictum committit contra sextum Decalogi praeceptum aut aliquem cogit ad actus sexuales exsequendos vel subeundos.

Canon 1396. A person who gravely violates the obligation of residence to which he is bound by reason of an ecclesiastical office is to be punished with a just penalty, not excluding, after a warning, deprivation of the office.

Qui graviter violat residentiae obligationem cui ratione ecclesiastici officii tenetur, iusta poena puniatur, non exclusa, post monitionem, officii privatione.

Canon 1397. §1 One who commits homicide, or who by force or by fraud abducts, imprisons, mutilates or gravely wounds a person, is to be punished, according to the gravity of the offence, with the penalties mentioned in can. 1336. In the case of the homicide of one of those persons mentioned in can. 1370, the offender is punished with the penalties prescribed there and also in §3 of this canon.

§2 A person who actually procures an abortion incurs a latae sententiae excommunication.
[NB see Authentic Interpretation of former canon 1398, 23.V.1988]

§3 If offences dealt with in this canon are involved, in more serious cases the guilty cleric is to be dismissed from the clerical state.

§1. Qui homicidium patrat, vel hominem vi aut fraude rapit vel detinet vel mutilat vel graviter vulnerat, poenis, de quibus in can. 1336, §§2-4, pro delicti gravitate puniatur; homicidium autem in personas de quibus in can. 1370, poenis ibi et etiam in§3 huius canonis statutis punitur.

§2. Qui abortum procurat, effectu secuto, in excommunicationem latae sententiae incurrit.

§3. Si de delictis agatur de quibus in hoc canone, in casibus gravioribus clericus reus dimittatur e statu clericali.

Canon 1398. §1 A cleric is to be punished with deprivation of office and with other just penalties, not excluding, where the case calls for it, dismissal from the clerical state, if he:

1° commits an offence against the sixth commandment of the Decalogue with a minor or with a person who habitually has an imperfect use of reason or with one to whom the law recognises equal protection;

2° grooms or induces a minor or a person who habitually has an imperfect use of reason or one to whom the law recognises equal protection to expose himself or herself pornographically or to take part in pornographic exhibitions, whether real or simulated;

3° immorally acquires, retains, exhibits or distributes, in whatever manner and by whatever technology, pornographic images of minors or of persons who habitually have an imperfect use of reason.

§2 A member of an institute of consecrated life or of a society of apostolic life, or any one of the faithful who enjoys a dignity or performs an office or function in the Church, who commits an offence mentioned in §1 or in can. 1395 §3 is to be punished according to the provision of can. 1336 §§2-4, with the addition of other penalties according to the gravity of the offence.

§1. Privatione officii et aliis iustis poenis, non exclusa dimissione e statu clericali, si casus id secumferat, puniatur clericus:

1° qui delictum committit contra sextum Decalogi praeceptum cum minore vel cum persona quae habitualiter usum imperfectum rationis habet vel cui ius parem tutelam agnoscit;

2° qui sibi devincit aut inducit minorem aut personam quae habitualiter usum imperfectum rationis habet aut eam cui ius parem tutelam agnoscit, ut pornographice sese ostendat vel exhibitiones pornographicas, sive veras sive simulatas, participet;

3° qui contra bonos mores sibi comparat, detinet, exhibet vel divulgat, quovis modo et quolibet instrumento, imagines pornographicas minorum vel personarum quae habitualiter usum imperfectum rationis habent.

§2. Sodalis instituti vitae consecratae vel societatis vitae apostolicae, et fidelis quilibet aliqua dignitate gaudens aut officio vel functione in Ecclesia fungens, si delictum committat de quo in§1 vel in can. 1395,§3, puniatur ad normam can. 1336, §§2-4, adiunctis quoque aliis poenis pro delicti gravitate.

Canon 1399. Besides the cases prescribed in this or in other laws, the external violation of divine or canon law can be punished, and with a just penalty, only when the special gravity of the violation requires it and necessity demands that scandals be prevented or repaired.

Praeter casus hac vel aliis legibus statutos, divinae vel canonicae legis externa violatio tunc tantum potest iusta quidem poena puniri, cum specialis violationis gravitas punitionem postulat, et necessitas urget scandala praeveniendi vel reparandi.