Dicastery Given Faculties to Penalize Wayward Priests

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Archbishop Mauro Piacenza, secretary of that congregation, explained today that the dicastery now has the faculty to treat cases of dismissal from the clerical state “in poenam” (as a penalty) for those clerics who have attempted marriage or have committed other grave sins against the Sixth Commandment.
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The procedure is nothing automatic, the prelate added, “but rather one which is pursued in certain and very circumscribed cases according to the prudent judgment of the Apostolic See.”
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Finally, the clergy congregation now has the faculty to “declare the loss of the clerical state for clerics who have abandoned the ministry for a period greater than five consecutive years and who persist in such freely chosen and illicit absence from the ministry.”

Archbishop Piacenza reiterated: “There is nothing automatic about these procedures, nor is there an automatic timeframe, and each case is considered individually, and applied only for the gravest circumstance.”
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