The crimes that make irregular (Can. 985)

Apostasy, heresy, schism; non-Catholic baptism; attempted marriage; homicide and abortion; mutilation and suicide; forbidden surgery; usurped exercise of Orders.

Penalty for Heresy — in Sins against Faith · Suicide and the Preservation of Life — in Life and Bodily Integrity (Fifth Commandment) · Mutilation — in Suicide and the Preservation of Life · Killing the Innocent — in Life and Bodily Integrity (Fifth Commandment) · Abortion — in Killing the Innocent

In the index as Irregularity · Homicide · Irregularities · Abortion · Violation · Mutilation · Celibacy · Clerics · Crime · Delict · Exercise of Order · Heresy · Heretics · Interdict · Marriage · Non-Priest · Order · Penalty · Priest · Schismatics · Stipends of Masses · Surgeon · Surgery and medical practice forbidden to clerics · Suspension

In the manuals

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Summa of Moral Theology (Summa Theologiae Moralis)

Hieronymus Noldin, S.J. — 14 passages

§ 2. Usurpation of Order, n. 133 — 133. A cleric who knowingly and solemnly exercises a sacred order which he does not have becomes irregular. 1. Cleric: for since the title in the body of law has: "concerning a cleric not ordained who ministers," this ir… Read in context →

§ 4. Homicide or Mutilation, nn. 135, 136, 137, 138, 139 & 140 (6 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. III, Bk. VII, Question Five. Concerning …, Article Three. Concerning …, Section 1. Defection from Faith., n. 491 — 491. Because of Defection from Faith these are irregular: apostates from the faith, heretics, and schismatics. a. For making a just judgment about this irregularity, attention must be paid to the notions as they are dete… Read in context →

Vol. III, Bk. VII, Question Five. Concerning …, Article Three. Concerning …, Section 2. Baptism Received from an Acatholic., n. 492 — 492. Because of Baptism Received from an Acatholic these are irregular: those who, except in a case of extreme necessity, allowed baptism to be conferred on themselves in any way by acatholics. a. Acatholics here are und… Read in context →

Vol. III, Bk. VII, Question Five. Concerning …, Article Three. Concerning …, Section 3. Attempted Marriage., n. 493 — 493. Because of Attempted Marriage these are irregular: those who have dared to attempt marriage, or to place only a civil act, while they themselves are bound either by a matrimonial bond, or by sacred order, or by reli… Read in context →

Vol. III, Bk. VII, Question Five. Concerning …, Article Three. Concerning …, Sect. 4, Procurement of Abortion., n. 494 — 494. Because of Homicide or Procurement of Abortion these are irregular: those who have perpetrated voluntary homicide or procured the abortion of a human fetus, the effect having followed, and all cooperators. a. Every … Read in context →

Vol. III, Bk. VII, Question Five. Concerning …, Article Three. Concerning …, Sect. 5, Attempt of Suicide., n. 495 — 495. Because of Mutilation or Attempt of Suicide these are irregular: those who mutilated themselves or others, or attempted to take life from themselves. 1. Mutilation is the cutting off of a member. By the name of memb… Read in context →

Vol. III, Bk. VII, Question Five. Concerning …, Article Three. Concerning …, Section 6. Exercise of Medical or Surgical Art., n. 496 — 496. Because of the Exercise of Medical or Surgical Art these are irregular: clerics who exercise the medical or surgical art forbidden to them, if death follows from it. a. This irregularity affects only clerics who exe… Read in context →

Vol. III, Bk. VII, Question Five. Concerning …, Article Three. Concerning …, Section 7. Abuse of Order., n. 497 — 497. Because of Abuse of Order these are irregular: those who place an act of order reserved to clerics constituted in sacred order, either while lacking that order or while prohibited from its exercise by a canonical pe… Read in context →

A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries

Thomas Slater, S.J. — 7 passages

Vol. II, Bk. XI, Chapter III. Irregularities arising from Crime, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7 (7 passages — hover a number to read it)

Compendium of Moral Theology of Fr. John Peter Gury, S.J., with the Notes of Antonio Ballerini, S.J.

Jean-Pierre Gury, S.J.; notes by Antonio Ballerini, S.J.

Vol. II, Treatise On Irregularities, Ch. II, Article II. On Irregularities from Delict, n. 1035 — IV. Enormous Crimes. 1035. - By this appellation are understood heresy and apostasy from the Faith. The supporters, receivers, and defenders of heretics and apostates, and even their sons, also incur this irregularity, chapter Statutum, On H… Read in context →

Manuale Theologiae Moralis

Dominic M. Prümmer, O.P.

Vol. III, Pt. II, Tr. IX, Ch. III, Art. III, § 3. On Irregularities From Delict, n. 620 — 620. 1. apostates from the faith, heretics, schismatics, and those who are or have been enrolled in an atheistic sect (Pontifical Commission, July 30, 1934: A. A. S. XXVI, 494); 2. those who, except in a case of extreme … Read in context →

Compendium of Moral Theology

Aloysius Sabetti, S.J., and Timothy Barrett, S.J.

Vol. II, Tr. XX, Ch. II, Article II. On Irregularities from Delict, n. 1034 — They are irregular from delict: 1°. Apostates from the faith, heretics, schismatics; 2°. Those who, except in a case of extreme necessity, have allowed baptism to be conferred upon themselves in any way by acatholics; 3°… Read in context →

Treated under the broader heading Irregularities arising from Crime — Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Cases of Conscience · Tanquerey · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis · Concina, Compendium · Decretum of Gratian — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)