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Chapter I. Special Excommunications

On the penalties in force today (ed.)

The censures listed here are those of the 1917 Code and of Apostolicae Sedis. That penal law was wholly replaced in 1983 and revised again in 2021: most of these automatic excommunications no longer exist, and reservation to the Holy See is now rare. This chapter remains an accurate record of the Church’s earlier penal discipline; it is not a statement of the penalties in force today.

1983 Code of Canon Law, Book VI, as revised by Pascite gregem Dei (2021)

Contents

A.—Excommunications Very Specially Reserved to the Holy See
B.—Excommunications Specially Reserved to the Holy See
C.—Excommunications Simply Reserved to the Holy See
D.—Excommunications Reserved to the Ordinary
E.—Excommunications Reserved to No One

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