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| | New Catholic Dictionary: infamy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Infamy of law is that resulting from an explicit pronouncement of the law, as a penalty for certain crimes, such as apostasy, heresy, schism. |
 | | Infamy of fact is that arising from crime committed or immoral character, followed by loss of reputation among serious, right-minded Catholics. |
 | | Canon law enumerates the grave effects of infamy, such as irregularity, disqualification for ecclesiastical office, exclusion from the Holy Eucharist, etc. Infamy of law ceases only by dispensation of the Holy See; infamy of fact, by penance and amendment, causing reestablishment of lost reputation, in the judgment of the bishop. |
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