Chapter I: Of Common Vindicative Penalties

Vindicative penalties which can affect all the faithful according to the gravity of delicts, in the Church, are especially:

1° Local interdict and interdict against a community or college in perpetuity or for a predefined time or at the good pleasure of the Superior.

2° Interdict from entrance into a church in perpetuity or for a predefined time or at the good pleasure of the Superior.

3° Penal transfer or suppression of an episcopal or parochial see.

4° Infamy of law.

5° Privation of ecclesiastical burial according to the norm of can. 1240, Sec. 1.

6° Privation of Sacramentals.

7° Privation or suspension for a time of a pension which is paid by the Church or from the goods of the Church, or of another ecclesiastical right or privilege.

8° Removal from exercising legitimate ecclesiastical acts.

9° Incapacity for ecclesiastical graces or functions in the Church which do not require the clerical state, or for obtaining academic degrees by ecclesiastical authority.

10° Privation or suspension for a time of a function, faculty, or grace already obtained.

11° Privation of the right of precedence or of active and passive voice, or of the right of bearing titles of honor, dress, insignia, which the Church has granted.

12° A monetary fine.

Penal suppression or transfer of an episcopal see is reserved to the Roman Pontiff; but of a parochial see, it cannot be decreed by local Ordinaries except with the counsel of the Chapter.

§ 1. Infamy is either of law or of fact.

§ 2. Infamy of law is that which is established in cases expressed by common law.

§ 3. Infamy of fact is contracted when someone, because of a perpetrated delict or because of depraved morals, has lost good esteem among upright and grave faithful; judgment concerning this belongs to the Ordinary.

§ 4. Neither affects the blood relatives or affines of the delinquent, with the prescription of can. 2147, Sec. 2, n. 3 remaining firm.

§ 1. One who labors under infamy of law is not only irregular according to the norm of can. 984, n. 5, but moreover is incapable of obtaining benefices, pensions, ecclesiastical offices and dignities, of performing legitimate ecclesiastical acts, of exercising an ecclesiastical right or function, and finally must be barred from ministry to be exercised in sacred functions.

§ 2. One who labors under infamy of fact must be repelled both from receiving orders according to the norm of can. 987, n. 7, dignities, benefices, ecclesiastical offices, and from exercising sacred ministry and from legitimate ecclesiastical acts.

Infamy of law ceases only by dispensation granted by the Apostolic See; infamy of fact ceases when good esteem among upright and grave faithful, all circumstances having been weighed and especially by long-lasting amendment of the accused, has been recovered in the prudent judgment of the Ordinary.

§ 1. If there is question of things for acquiring which capacity is established by common law, the Apostolic See alone can inflict the penalty of incapacity.

§ 2. Rights already acquired are not lost on account of supervening incapacity, unless to this is added the penalty of privation.

Monetary fines inflicted by common law, the disbursement of which is not predefined by the same law, and others established or to be established by particular law, local Ordinaries must disburse for pious uses, but not for the convenience of the episcopal or capitular mensa.