Title — 1917 Code of Canon Law
Title XVI: Of the Dismissal of Religious
Superseded as law in 1983 — read why this Code still matters. Each canon links to its 1983 counterpart.
§ 1. By the fact itself the following religious are to be held as legitimately dismissed:
1° Public apostates from the Catholic faith.
2° A religious man who has taken flight with a woman; or a religious woman who has taken flight with a man.
3° Those attempting or contracting marriage or even, as they say, a civil bond.
§ 2. In these cases it suffices that the major Superior with his Chapter or Council according to the norm of the constitutions emit a declaration of the fact; moreover he is to take care to preserve the collected proofs of the fact in the records of the house.
§ 1. Ipso facto habendi sunt tanquam legitime dimissi religiosi:
1° Publici apostatae a fide catholica;
2° Religiosus, qui fugam arripuerit cum muliere; aut religiosa quae cum viro;
3° Attentantes aut contrahentes matrimonium aut etiam vinculum, ut aiunt, civile.
§ 2. In his casibus sufficit ut Superior maior cum suo Capitulo vel Consilio ad normam constitutionum emittat declarationem facti; curet autem probationes facti collectas in domus regestis asservare.
1983 Code correlation: can. 694-95
Within this title
- Chapter I: Of the Dismissal of Religious Who Have Pronounced Temporary Vowscann. 647–648
- Chapter II: Of the Dismissal of Religious Who Have Pronounced Perpetual Vows in a Non-exempt Clerical Religion or in a Lay Religioncann. 649–653
- Chapter III: Of the Judicial Process in the Dismissal of Religious Who Have Pronounced Perpetual Vows, Whether Solemn or Simple, in an Exempt Clerical Religioncann. 654–668
- Chapter IV: Of Dismissed Religious Who Have Pronounced Perpetual Vowscann. 669–672