When a priest stops being a priest: How laicization works.

Note: I accidentally used a non-standard spelling of "ecumenical" during the last section of the video. It can take up to two to four hours to export new revisions of an episode, so I decided not to correct it on this one.

This video explains the process by which a cleric can lose the clerical state, and be forbidden from performing the sacraments proper to priesthood.

Sources:

Hebrews 7 (Priesthood in the New Covenant): https://bible.usccb.org/bible/hebrews/7
CIC Can. 290 (The everlasting character of the priesthood, and the reasons for losing the clerical state): https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iu...
CIC Can. 965 (Only a priest can forgive sins): https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iu...
CIC Can. 862 (Baptism can be done by anyone in an emergency): https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iu....
America Magazine article. August 24, 2020
(Instance of a priest who found out he was not a priest): https://www.americamagazine.org/polit...
Source to verify that the priest was later ordained (for real this time): https://directory.aod.org/#/clergy
CIC Can. 1395 (Sexual sins causing dismissal from the priesthood): https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iu...
CIC Can. 291 (the priest has to remain celibate after dismissal): https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iu...
CIC Can. 976 (priests can perform confession in emergency): https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iu...
Canon Law - Dispensations Provide For Flexibility In Church Law (Details about the third case of losing the clerical state): https://www.chausa.org/publications/h....
Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches (Eastern Canons referencing married clergy): https://www.intratext.com/IXT/ENG1199...
Are priests in the Eastern Catholic Churches permitted to marry? (Prior to becoming a cleric only): https://east2west.org/sp_faq/married-...

Apologies to Bishop Jacques Habert whose image I used in the thumbnail of this video.
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