PART II :
PENALTIES FORPARTICULAR OFFENCES
TITLE I:
OFFENCES AGAINST RELIGION AND THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH (Cann. 1364 -
1369)
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 baptised 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.
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