Can. 1386 §1. A confessor who directly violates the sacramental seal incurs a latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See; but if he does so only indirectly, he is to be punished according to the gravity of the delict.
§2
Can. 1386 §2. An interpreter and the others mentioned in can. 983 §2 who violate the secret are to be punished with a just penalty, not excluding excommunication.
§3
Can. 1386 §3. Without prejudice to the prescripts of §§1-2, whoever records by whatever technical means or diffuses maliciously through the means of social communication those things that are said in sacramental confession, true or false, by the confessor or by the penitent, is to be punished according to the gravity of the delict, not excluding, if he is a cleric, dismissal from the clerical state.
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