Additional penalties to be decreed by judicial sentences:Apostates and heretics are irregular, that is, debarred from receiving clerical orders or exercising lawfully the dutiesand rights annexed to them; they are infamous, that is, publicly noted as guilty and dishonoured. This note ofinfamy clings to the children and grandchildren of unrepented heretics. Heretical clerics and all who receive, defend, or favour them are ipso facto deprived of theirbenefices, offices, and ecclesiastical jurisdiction. The popehimself, if notoriously guilty of heresy, would cease to bepope because he would cease to be a member of theChurch. Baptism received without necessity by an adult at the hands of a declared heretic renders the recipientirregular.
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