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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 alongstanding 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 bepunished with a just penalty.

Can.1366 Parents, and those taking the place of parents, who hand over theirchildren to be baptised or brought up in a non-catholic religion, are to bepunished 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 bepunished 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 orassembly, or in a published writing, or by otherwise using the means of social communication, utters blasphemy, or gravely harms public morals, or rails at orexcites hatred of or contempt for religion or the Church.