Chapter II. Special Suspensions

I. Si clericus, non obtenta ab Ordinario loci licentia, aliam personam [infra Praelatum] privilegio fori fruentem ausus fuerit ad judicem laicum trahere, incurrit ipso facto in suspensionem ab Officio reservatam Ordinario (Can. (If a cleric, without having obtained permission from the Ordinary of the place, shall have dared to drag before a lay judge another person below the rank of Prelate who enjoys the privilege of the forum, he incurs ipso facto a suspension from office reserved to the Ordinary.) 2341).

II. Sacerdos qui sine necessaria jurisdictione praesumpserit sacramentales confessiones audire, est ipso facto suspensus a divinis; qui vero a peccatis reservatis absolvere, ipso facto suspensus est ab audiendis confessionibus (Can. (A priest who without the necessary jurisdiction presumes to hear sacramental confessions is ipso facto suspended from divine functions; but one who presumes to absolve from reserved sins is ipso facto suspended from hearing confessions.) 2366).

III. Episcopus aliquem consecrans in Episcopum, Episcopi, vel loco Episcoporum, presbyteri assistentes, et qui consecrationem recipit sine apostolico mandato, contra praescriptum Can. 953, ipso jure suspensi sunt, donec Sedes Apostolica eos dispensaverit (Can. (A Bishop consecrating anyone a Bishop, and the Bishops, or the priests assisting in place of Bishops, and he who receives the consecration without an apostolic mandate, against the prescription of Canon 953, are suspended by the law itself until the Apostolic See dispenses them.) 2370).

IV. Omnes, etiam episcopali dignitate aucti, qui per simoniam ad ordines scienter promoverint, vel promoti fuerint, aut alia sacramenta ministraverint vel receperint, sunt suspecti de haeresi; (All, even those endowed with episcopal dignity, who knowingly promote to orders by simony, or are so promoted, or administer or receive other sacraments by simony, are suspect of heresy;) clerici praeterea suspensionem incurrunt Sedi Apostolicae reservatam (Can. 2371).

V. Suspensionem a divinis Sedi Apostolicae reservatam, ipso facto contrahunt, qui recipere ordines praesumunt ab excommunicato vel suspenso vel interdicto post sententiam declaratoriam vel condemnatoriam; (There contract ipso facto a suspension from divine functions reserved to the Apostolic See those who presume to receive orders from a man excommunicated, suspended or interdicted after a declaratory or condemnatory sentence, or from a notorious apostate, heretic or schismatic.) aut a notorio apostata, haeretico, schismatico; qui vero bona fide a quopiam eorum sit ordinatus, exercitio careat ordinis sic recepti donec dispensetur (Can. 2372).

VI. In suspensionem per annum ab ordinum collatione Sedi Apostolicae reservatam ipso facto incurrunt: (1) Qui contra praescriptum Can. 955 alienum subditum sine Ordinarii proprii litteris dimissoriis ordinaverint.

(2) Qui subditum proprium qui alibi tanto tempore moratus sit ut canonicum impedimentum contrahere ibi potuerit, ordinaverint contra praescriptum Can. (There incur ipso facto a suspension for a year from conferring orders, reserved to the Apostolic See: (1) those who, against the prescription of Canon 955, ordain another’s subject without dimissorial letters from his own Ordinary; (2) those who ordain their own subject who has stayed elsewhere long enough to have been able to contract a canonical impediment there, against the prescription of the Canon.) 993, n. 4; 994.

(3) Qui aliquem ad ordines majores sine titulo canonico promoverint contra praescriptum Can. ((3) Those who promote anyone to major orders without a canonical title, against the prescription of the Canon.) 974, sec. I, n. 57.

(4) Qui salvo legitimo privilegio, religiosum, ad familiam pertinentem quae sit extra territorium ipsius ordinantis, promoverint, etiam cum litteris dimissorialibus proprii Superioris, nisi legitime probatum fuerit aliquem e casibus occurrere de quibus in Can. (even with dimissorial letters from his own Superior, unless it has been lawfully proved that one of the cases occurs which are mentioned in Canon 966.) 966 (Can. 2373).

VII. Qui sine litteris vel cum falsis dimissoriis litteris, vel ante canonicam aetatem, vel per saltum, ad ordines malitiose accesserit, est ipso facto a recepto ordine suspensus 2374). (Whoever maliciously approaches orders without dimissorial letters, or with false ones, or before the canonical age, or by a leap, is ipso facto suspended from the order he has received.) (Can. VIII. Religiosus fugitivus ipso facto incurrit in privationem officii si quod in religione habeat, et in suspensionem proprio Superiori majori reservatam, si sit in sacris (Can. (A fugitive religious incurs ipso facto the loss of any office he may hold in the institute, and, if he is in sacred orders, a suspension reserved to his own major Superior.) 2386).

IX. Religiosus clericus cujus professio ob admissum ab ipso dolum nulla fuerit declarata, si sit in minoribus ordinibus constitutus, e statu clericali abjiciatur; si in majoribus, ipso facto suspensus manet, donec Sedi Apostolicae aliter visum fuerit (Can. (A religious cleric whose profession has been declared null on account of fraud committed by himself is, if he is constituted in minor orders, to be cast out of the clerical state; if in major orders, he remains ipso facto suspended until the Apostolic See shall determine otherwise.) 2387).

X. Professus votorum perpetuorum ordinatus in sacris dimissus ob delicta minora iis de quibus in Can. (One professed of perpetual vows and ordained in sacred orders, who is dismissed for offences less than those mentioned in Canon 670, remains ipso facto suspended until he obtains absolution from the Holy See.) 670, ipso facto suspensus manet, donec a Sancta Sede absolutionem obtinuerit (Can. 671).

XI. Clericus qui in manus laicorum officium, beneficium, aut dignitatem ecclesiasticam resignare praesumpserit, ipso facto in suspensionem a divinis incurrit (Can. (A cleric who presumes to resign an ecclesiastical office, benefice or dignity into the hands of laymen incurs ipso facto suspension from divine functions.) 2400).

XII. Abbas vel Praelatus nullius qui contra praescriptum Can. (An Abbot or Prelate nullius who, against the prescription of Canon 322 §) 322, sec. 2, benedictionem non receperit, est ipso facto a jurisdictione suspensus (Can. (2, has not received the blessing, is ipso facto suspended from jurisdiction.) 2402).

XIII. Vicarius Capitularis concedens litteras dimissorias pro ordinatione contra praescriptum Can. (A Vicar Capitular granting dimissorial letters for ordination against the prescription of Canon 958 §) 958, sec. 1, n. 3, ipso facto subjacet suspensioni a divinis (Can. 2409).

XIV. Superiores religiosi qui contra praescriptum Can. 965967 subditos suos ad Episcopum alienum ordinandos remittere praesumpserint ipso facto suspensi sunt per mensem a Missae celebratione (Can. (Religious Superiors who, against the prescription of Canons 965-967, presume to send their subjects to another Bishop for ordination are ipso facto suspended for a month from the celebration of Mass.) 2410).