Taking away the consecrated host is a sin (morality) and an offence (legality) at the same time. This means one needs sacramental absolution in addition to the penalty. This also explains why reparation is needed when the Eucharist is desecrated.
One must note that the invalidity of the attempted marriage only occurs in the Church because a priest or a finally professed religious who marries according to customary or statutory law contracts the marriage validly and licitly if he or she fulfils the conditions required for the validity and liceity of marriage in the customary or statutory law legal system.
One who confers a sacred order on a woman merely attempts the act.
Capacity concerns validity while ability concerns liceity
Since clerics and religious are obliged to report a case of sexual abuse, neglecting to report is a delict punishable in canon law.
The delict excludes sinful desires, mutually expressed desires, and frustrated attempts to sin. While sinful, they do not meet the juridical criterion to verify the delict.
The sacrament seal, which binds only the confessor, implies that the confessor does not know what was said at the confessional, as what was said in God’s forum must always remain in God’s forum.
Priests are recommended not to give their number directly to anyone who comes for confession.
Merely visiting an ATR shrine does not automatically mean a total rejection of the Christian God. Since ATR is part of our history and culture, one can visit the shrine for academic purposes.
As several ministries of Catholics still claim to be Catholic, schism, as a withdrawal from papal authority and ecclesial communion, must be ascertained and not presumed.
