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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.
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