Excommunicated persons are forbidden to receive the Sacraments. After a declaratory or condemnatory sentence they may not be buried from the church, if they should die before obtaining absolution (Canon 2260).
An excommunicated priest is forbidden to celebrate Holy Mass or to administer the sacraments and sacramentals. The faithful, however, may for any good reason ask the sacraments and sacramentals of an excommunicated priest, especially when there is no one else to minister to the applicant, and in cases where the excom municated priest is requested he is allowed to administer the sacraments and is not obliged to inquire why he is requested to do so. The faithful, however, are not allowed to ask the sacraments from a priest who is an excommunicatus vitandus or a priest excommunicated by a sentence in the ecclesiastical court, except in case of danger of death (Canon 2261).
Every excommunicated person is deprived of the indulgences and of his share in the public prayers of the Church. The faithful, however, may privately pray for the excommunicated and a priest may privately apply Holy Mass for their intentions, provided that no scandal is given (Canon 2262). As Protestants fall under the class of the excommunicati tolerati, the Code allows Holy Mass to be applied for their intentions; but privately only.
The exercise of jurisdiction both in the internal and the external forum on the part of an excommunicated person is unlawful; and if the excommunication was imposed by sentence in the ecclesiastical court all acts requiring jurisdiction become invalid, except in danger of death, when any priest can validly absolve a person in such extremity (Canon 2264).
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