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DIRIMENT IMPEDIMENTS

SPECIFICALLY

SACRED ORDERS
Canon 1087 Those in sacred orders invalidly attempt marriage.

From its origin, the Church has cherished the charism of


virginity and celibacy as witnesses to the kingdom of God.
As celibates, the ordained more easily hold fast to Christ
with undivided heart.
It was only gradually, however, that
the Latin church came to require celibacy
for more candidates for ordained
ministry and to established sacred orders
as an impediment to marriage.
As qualifications;
Various ministers “be married only once”, the early
church routinely ordained married men. Nevertheless, once
ordained, these ministers prohibited from marrying if they
unmarried at the time of their ordinations or from
remarrying if their wives died.
The Eastern Churches have continued the tradition of
ordaining married man but of subjecting those who attempt
marriage after ordination to the penalty of deposition.
In the west, from the early fourth century there were periodic
movements to require continence of all ordained ministers. It
was enforced by threatening penal sanctions such as deposition
rather than by invalidating their marriage.
The Second Lateran Council (1139) established the sacred
order of bishop, presbyter, deacon and subdeacon as a deriment
impediment to marriage which entailed a tacit solemn vow of
chastity.
The one ordained must have received the order freely
and with sufficient knowledge of his obligation not to
marry (or in the case of the one who is already married
at the time of his ordination, not to marry).

All candidates in ordination (sacred orders), should


receive it of their own accord and freely, possess the
requisite freedom and knowledge.
DISPENSATION
Dispensation from the impediment of sacred orders are
reserved to the Apostolic See.

In danger of death, the local ordinary and, when he is


not available, pastors (the properly deligated sacred
ministers, and the priest and deacon who assist at
marriage , possess tha same power of dispensing).
The Apostolic See does not grant dispensations to those
ordained to the episcopate.

Dispensations from the order of presbyters and deacons


(recently), are normally granted by the pope as part of the
process of the returning to the lay state.
A person in sacred orders who attempts marriage not only
does so invalidly, but is subject to penal sanctions.
He ipso facto loses any ecclesiastical office he hold and incurs
a latae sententiae suspention.
If he continues to give scandal after a warning, he can be
subjected to progressively graver deprivations, including
evetually dismissal from the clerical state.

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