Question about someone leaving the priesthood

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If a priest leaves the priesthood and marries, is he allowed to be married in the Catholic Church? If yes, can he serve as a deacon?
 
if he is properly dispensed from his orders, he may live as a layman.
if he is not propelry dispenced from his orders, he is excommunicated.

in both cases it would be rare and unprecedented to allow him to exersize orders publically again, but of course preist forever and so at danger of another’s death he can give a sacrament to the dying person.
 
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Didi:
If a priest leaves the priesthood and marries, is he allowed to be married in the Catholic Church?
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The Holy See can (and often does) give a dispensation to allow a laicized priest to marry in the Church.
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If yes, can he serve as a deacon?
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No. From Redemptionis Sacramentum:
  1. “A cleric who loses the clerical state in accordance with the law . . . is prohibited from exercising the power of order”. It is therefore not licit for him to celebrate the sacraments under any pretext whatsoever save in the exceptional case set forth by law, nor is it licit for Christ’s faithful to have recourse to him for the celebration, since there is no reason which would permit this according to canon 1335. Moreover, these men should neither give the homily nor ever undertake any office or duty in the celebration of the sacred Liturgy, lest confusion arise among Christ’s faithful and the truth be obscured.
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