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As regards the infliction of the death penalty, canonists generally hold that ecclesiastical law forbids inferior church tribunals to decree this punishment directly, but that the pope or a general council has the power, at least indirectly, in as much as they can demand that a Catholic state inflict this punishment when the good of the Church ...
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]
A censure, in the canon law of the Catholic Church, is a medicinal and spiritual punishment imposed by the Church on a baptized, delinquent, and contumacious individual. This punishment deprives the person, either wholly or partially, of certain spiritual goods until they resolve their contumacy.
The canon law of the Catholic Church is articulated in the legal code for the Latin Church [9] as well as a code for the Eastern Catholic Churches. [9] This canon law has principles of legal interpretation, [10] and coercive penalties. [11] It lacks civilly-binding force in most secular jurisdictions.
Canon law, as set down in the Decretium Gratiani and the Decretals of Gregory IX, also allowed the use of torture; in 1252, Pope Innocent IV specifically licensed the use of torture on Inquisition prisoners, and in 1256 Pope Alexander IV gave permission for inquisitors to absolve each other for violating the tradition against clerical shedding ...
Roman Catholic canon law is a fully developed legal system, with all the necessary elements: courts, lawyers, judges, a fully articulated legal code, [20] principles of legal interpretation, and coercive penalties, though it lacks civilly-binding force in most secular jurisdictions.
Private school advocates, who vehemently oppose state intervention, did not oppose the new law. Schools in the Catholic Conference of Illinois do not use corporal punishment, executive director ...
In Latin Catholic canon law, excommunication is a rarely applied [4] censure; it is a "medicinal penalty" intended to invite the person to change behaviour or attitude, repent, and return to full communion. [5] It is not an "expiatory penalty" designed to make satisfaction for the wrong done, nor is it "vindictive". [6]