Catechism Paragraph 1463
Part 2:
THE CELEBRATION OF THE CHRISTIAN MYSTERY
Section 2: THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS OF THE CHURCH
Chapter 2: THE SACRAMENTS OF HEALING
Article 4: THE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE AND RECONCILIATION
Section 2: THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS OF THE CHURCH
Chapter 2: THE SACRAMENTS OF HEALING
Article 4: THE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE AND RECONCILIATION
Certain particularly grave sins incur excommunication, the most severe ecclesiastical penalty, which impedes the reception of the sacraments and the exercise of certain ecclesiastical acts, and for which absolution consequently cannot be granted, according to canon law, except by the Pope, the bishop of the place or priests authorized by them.[68] In danger of death any priest, even if deprived of faculties for hearing confessions, can absolve from every sin and excommunication.[69]
š Footnotes
[68]
Cf. CIC, cann. 1331; 1354-1357; CCEO, can. 1431; 1434; 1420.
[69]
Cf. CIC, can. 976; CCEO, can. 725.