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.