Can. 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; a
cleric, moreover, may be punished with the penalties mentioned in Can. 1336 ฿1, nn. 1, 2
and 3.
฿2 If a longstanding contempt or the gravity of scandal calls for it, other penalties
may be added, not excluding dismissal from the clerical state.
Can. 1365 One who is guilty of prohibited participation in religious rites is to be
punished with a just penalty.
Can. 1366 Parents, and those taking the place of parents, who hand over their children
to be baptized or brought up in a non-Catholic religion, are to be punished with a
censure or other just penalty.
Can. 1367 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.
Can. 1368 A person who, in asserting or promising something before an ecclesiastical
authority, commits perjury, is to be punished with a just penalty.
Can. 1369 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.
Can. 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 out of contempt for
the faith, or the Church, or ecclesiastical authority or the ministry, is to be punished
with a just penalty.
Can. 1371 The following are to be punished with a just penalty:
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1 a person who, apart from the case mentioned in Can. 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 in Can. 752 and, when warned by the Apostolic See or by the Ordinary,
does not retract;
2 a person who in any other way does not obey the lawful command or prohibition of
the Apostolic See or the Ordinary or Superior and, after being warned, persists in
disobedience.
Can. 1372 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.
Can. 1373 A person who publicly incites his or her subjects to hatred or animosity
against the Apostolic See or the Ordinary because of some act of ecclesiastical authority
or ministry, or who provokes the subjects to disobedience against them, is to be punished
by interdict or other just penalties.
Can. 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.
Can. 1375 Those who hinder the freedom of the ministry or of an election or of the
exercise of ecclesiastical power, or the lawful use of sacred or other ecclesiastical
goods, or who intimidate either an elector or one who is elected or one who exercises
ecclesiastical power or ministry, may be punished with a just penalty.
Can. 1376 A person who profanes a sacred object, moveable or immovable, is to be
punished with a just penalty.
Can. 1377 A person who without the prescribed permission alienates ecclesiastical
goods, is to be punished with a just penalty.
Can. 1378 ฿1 A priest who acts against the prescription of Can. 977 incurs a latae
sententiae excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See.
฿2 The following incur a latae sententiae interdict or, if a cleric, a latae
sententiae suspension:
1 a person who, not being an ordained priest, attempts to celebrate Mass
2 a person who, apart from the case mentioned in ฿1, though unable to give valid
sacramental absolution, attempts to do so, or hears a sacramental confession.
฿3 In the cases mentioned in ฿2, other penalties, not excluding excommunication, can
be added, according to the gravity of the offence.
Can. 1379 A person who, apart from the cases mentioned in Can. 1378, pretends to
administer a sacrament, is to be punished with a just penalty.
Can. 1380 A person who through simony celebrates or receives a sacrament, is to be
punished with an interdict or suspension.
Can. 1381 ฿1 Anyone who usurps an ecclesiastical office is to be punished with a just
penalty.
฿2 The unlawful retention of an ecclesiastical office after being deprived of it, or
ceasing from it, is equivalent to usurpation.
Can. 1382 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.
Can. 1383 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.
Can. 1384 A person who, apart from the cases mentioned in canon 13781383, unlawfully
exercises the office of a priest or another sacred ministry, may be punished with a just
penalty.
Can. 1385 A person who unlawfully traffics in Mass offerings is to be punished with a
censure or other just penalty.
Can. 1386 A person who gives or promises something so that some one who exercises an
office in the Church would unlawfully act or fail to act, is to be punished with a just
penalty; likewise, the person who accepts such gifts or promises.
Can. 1387 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.
Can. 1388 ฿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.
Can. 1389 ฿1 A person who abuses ecclesiastical power or an office, is to be punished
according to the gravity of the act or the omission, not excluding by deprivation of the
office, unless a penalty for that abuse is already established by law or precept.
฿2 A person who, through culpable negligence, unlawfully and with harm to another,
performs or omits an act of ecclesiastical power or ministry or office, is to be punished
with a just penalty.
Can. 1390 ฿1 A person who falsely denounces a confessor of the offence mentioned in
can. 1387 to an ecclesiastical Superior, incurs a latae sententiae interdict and, if a
cleric, he incurs also a suspension.
฿2 A person who calumniously denounces an offence to an ecclesiastical Superior, or
otherwise injures the good name of another, can be punished with a just penalty, not
excluding a censure.
฿3 The calumniator can also be compelled to make appropriate amends.
Can. 1391 The following can be punished with a just penalty, according to the gravity
of the offence:
1 a person who composes a false public ecclesiastical document, or who changes 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.
Can. 1392 Clerics or religious who engage in trading or business contrary to the
provisions of the canons, are to be punished according to the gravity of the offence.
Can. 1393 A person who violates obligations imposed by a penalty, can be punished with
a just penalty.
Can. 1394 ฿1 Without prejudice to the provisions of can. 194, ฿1, n. 3, a cleric who
attempts marriage, even if only civilly, incurs a latae sententiae suspension. If, after
warning, he has not reformed and continues to give scandal, he can be progressively
punished by deprivations, or even by dismissal from the clerical state.
฿2 Without prejudice to the provisions of can. 694, a religious in perpetual vows who
is not a cleric but who attempts marriage, even if only civilly, incurs a latae sententiae
interdict.
Can. 1395 ฿1 Apart from the case mentioned in can. 1394, a cleric living in
concubinage, 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 crime was committed by force, or by threats, or in public, or with a
minor under the age of sixteen years, is to be punished with just penalties, not excluding
dismissal from the clerical state if the case so warrants.
Can. 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.
Can. 1397 One who commits murder, 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 deprivations and prohibitions mentioned in can. 1336. In the case of the
murder of one of those persons mentioned in can. 1370, the offender is punished with the
penalties there prescribed.
Can. 1398 A person who actually procures an abortion incurs a latae sententiae
excommunication.
Can. 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.