Điều 1397
Người nào phạm tội sát nhân, hoặc dùng vũ lực hay mưu kế để bắt cóc, hoặc giam giữ, hoặc hủy hoại thân thể, hoặc đả thương trầm trọng một người nào đó, thì phải chịu những hình phạt tước đoạt và cấm chế được nói đến ở điều 1336, tùy theo mức độ nghiêm trọng của tội phạm; còn tội sát nhân phạm đến những người được nói đến ở điều 1370, thì đương sự phải chịu những hình phạt do chính điều luật ấy quy định.
Canon 1397
§1 One who commits homicide, or who by force or by fraud abducts, imprisons, mutilates or gravely wounds a person, is to be punished, according to the gravity of the offence, with the penalties mentioned in can. 1336. In the case of the homicide of one of those persons mentioned in can. 1370, the offender is punished with the penalties prescribed there and also in
§3 of this canon.
§2 A person who actually procures an abortion incurs a latae sententiae excommunication. [An Authentic Interpretation of the former canon 1398, 23.V.1988, states that abortion in this canon refers to the killing of a foetus in whatever way at whatever time from the moment of conception it may be procured] [Pope Francis, in no. 12 of his Letter Misericordia et misera, 21.XI.2016, granted all confessors until further notice the faculty to remit the censure arising from the crime of abortion and to absolve sacramentally the sin of abortion; see also the Response of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts to a particular question, Prot. 15675/2016, 29.XI.2016]
§3 If offences dealt with in this canon are involved, in more serious cases the guilty cleric is to be dismissed from the clerical state.
Điều 1398
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Canon 1398
§1 A cleric is to be punished with deprivation of office and with other just penalties, not excluding, where the case calls for it, dismissal from the clerical state, if he:1° commits an offence against the sixth commandment of the Decalogue with a minor or with a person who habitually has an imperfect use of reason or with one to whom the law recognises equal protection;2° grooms or induces a minor or a person who habitually has an imperfect use of reason or one to whom the law recognises equal protection to expose himself or herself pornographically or to take part in pornographic exhibitions, whether real or simulated;3° immorally acquires, retains, exhibits or distributes, in whatever manner and by whatever technology, pornographic images of minors or of persons who habitually have an imperfect use of reason.
§2 A member of an institute of consecrated life or of a society of apostolic life, or any one of the faithful who enjoys a dignity or performs an office or function in the Church, who commits an offence mentioned in
§1 or in can. 1395
§3 is to be punished according to the provision of can. 1336 §
§2-4, with the addition of other penalties according to the gravity of the offence. [Regarding the offences in this canon see m.p. Vos estis lux mundi, 25.III.2023, art. 1
§1 a), as well as the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith’s Vademecum on certain points of procedure in treating cases of sexual abuse of minors committed by clerics, version 2.0, 5.VI.2022] [See also the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith’s clarification of the concept of “vulnerable adult”, 30.I.2024]
