Chapter III: Of Those to Whom Ecclesiastical Burial Is to Be Granted or Denied

§ 1. Those who have died without baptism are not to be admitted to ecclesiastical burial.

§ 2. Catechumens who die without baptism through no fault of their own are to be counted among the baptized.

§ 3. All baptized persons are to be endowed with ecclesiastical burial, unless they are expressly deprived of the same by law.

§ 1. The following are deprived of ecclesiastical burial, unless before death they have given some signs of penitence:

1° Notorious apostates from the Christian faith, or those notoriously attached to a heretical or schismatic sect, or to a masonic sect or other societies of the same kind.

2° Excommunicated or interdicted persons after a condemnatory or declaratory sentence.

3° Those who killed themselves by deliberate counsel.

4° Those dead in a duel or from a wound received from it.

5° Those who ordered that their body be handed over to cremation.

6° Other public and manifest sinners.

§ 2. If in the aforesaid cases some doubt occurs, the Ordinary is to be consulted if time permits; if doubt remains, the corpse is to be handed over to ecclesiastical burial, yet in such a way that scandal is removed.

When someone has been excluded from ecclesiastical burial, there are also to be denied both any funeral Mass, even anniversary Mass, and other public funeral offices.

If it can be done without grave inconvenience, the corpse of an excommunicate to be avoided, who against the statutes of the canons obtained burial in a sacred place, is to be exhumed, with the prescription of can. 1214, Sec. 1 observed, and placed back in the profane place of which in can. 1212.