Natura i skutki ekskomuniki według Kodeksu Prawa Kanonicznego z 1983 roku
The Nature and Effects of Excommunication in the 1983 Code of Canon Law

Summary/Abstract: Excommunication is one of medicinal penalties in the Church. Censures deprive a punished person of access to various ecclesiastical goods. Excommunication can be either latae sententiae or ferendae sententiae. Canon 1331 § 1 defines consequences of excommunication latae sententiae. The ex-communicated people are barred from participating in the liturgy in a ministerial ca-pacity and from celebrating and receiving the Eucharist or other sacraments, but are not excluded from participation in these. They are also forbidden to exercise any eccle-siastical office or the like. Canon 1332 § 2 stipulates the imposed or declared exco-mmunication’s results, which are: an obligation on others to prevent the excommuni-cated person from acting in a ministerial capacity in the liturgy or, if this proves impo-ssible, to suspend the liturgical service; invalidity of acts of ecclesiastical governance; prohibition of benefits from privileges previously granted. Moreover excommunicated person cannot acquire validly a dignity, office, or other function in the Church; does not appropriate the benefits of a dignity, office, any function, or pension, which has in the Church.

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