Uprawnienia szafarza sakramentu pokuty i pojednania przy spowiedzi wiernego innego obrządku

Abstract

In the catalog of the differences, which in comparison with the Roman law is found in the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, there is the part of the differences concerning the regulation of different penalties and reserved sins. This issue, on the borderline of criminal law and the rights of the sacraments, is particularly relevant in the context of the inter-rite confession. Latae sententiae penalties, as provided in the Code of Canon Law, remain completely unknown to the east of legislation. The latter provides for the reserved sins. While taking into account that every believer has the right to choose a confessor, also from the different rite, before whom there is the particular difficulty to answer the question about the scope of theirs competence. The present article is an attempt to find out the solutions to a situation in which the faithful Eastern Catholic confesses the exclusive sin before the confessor, and the faithful Roman wants to confess to a priest being in the Eastern ecclesiastical penalty, which incurs latae sententiae.