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Sanctions in the Church » Particular Offenses and the Penalties Established for Them » Offenses Against Church Authorities and the Exercise of Duties
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.
Sanctions in the Church » Particular Offenses and the Penalties Established for Them » Offenses Against the Sacraments
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.

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