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Sanctions in the Church » Particular Offenses and the Penalties Established for Them » Offenses Against Reputation and the Offense of Falsehood
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.

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