Suspension (Catholic canonical penalty)
Suspension (Latin: Suspensio) in Catholic canon law is a censure or punishment, by which a priest or cleric is deprived, entirely or partially, of the use of the right to order or to hold office, or of any benefice.[1]
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When a suspension "forbids the exercise of every act of the power of orders which one obtained either by sacred orders or by privilege", this suspension is called "suspension a divinis".[2]
When a suspension is total, a cleric is deprived of the exercise of every function and of every ecclesiastical rite, and can also be temporarily deprived of Communion. The principal grounds on which suspension is incurred in the present discipline of the Church are found in the Decrees of the Council of Trent.[1]
Notable suspensions
- Marco Bisceglia. Suspended in 1975 for performing a blessing of gay catholic couple. The couple wasn't real. Bisceglia was approached by two right-wing journalists from Il Borghese, posing as a gay couple.[3]
References
- Suspension (in Canon Law) - Catholic Encyclopedia. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
- "Library : A Canonical History of the Lefebvrite Schism". www.catholicculture.org. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
- Sean Brady, Mark Seymour (2019). From Sodomy Laws to Same-Sex Marriage: International Perspectives since 1789. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 171. ISBN 9781350023901.
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