TITLE II :
OFFENCES AGAINST CHURCH AUTHORITIES AND THE FREEDOM OF THE CHURCH
(Cann. 1370 - 1377)
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:
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 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.
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