Can. 1398 §1. A cleric is to be punished with privation of office and other just penalties, not excluding dismissal from the clerical state if the case warrants it: 1° who commits a delict against the sixth commandment of the Decalogue with a minor or with a person who habitually has the imperfect use of reason or with a person for whom the law recognizes equal protection; 2° who recruits or induces a minor or a person who habitually has the imperfect use of reason or a person for whom the law recognizes equal protection, to show himself or herself pornographically or to participate in pornographic exhibitions, whether real or simulated; 3° who immorally acquires, possesses, exhibits, or distributes, by any means and using whatever technology, pornographic images of minors or of persons who habitually have the imperfect use of reason.
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Can. 1398 §2. A member of an institute of consecrated life or society of apostolic life, and any member of the faithful who has any dignity or who fulfills an office or function in the Church, if the person commits the delict mentioned in §1 or in can. 1395 §3, is to be punished according to the norm of can. 1336 §§2-4, with other penalties also added according to the gravity of the delict.
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