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Book VI - Sanctions in the Church

Part I - Delicts and Penalties in General

Title I - The Punishment of Delicts in General (cc. 1311-1312)

What are the medicinal penalties described in the code (cc. 1312 and 1331-1333)?
What is an expiatory penalty? What are some examples of expiatory penalties mentioned in the code (cc. 1312 and 1336)?
What are penal remedies and penances (cc. 1312 and 1339-1340)?

Title II - Penal Law and Penal Precept (cc. 1313-1320)
What is a penal law and a penal precept? What penalties cannot be established in a penal precept (cc. 1319 §1, 1334 §2)?
What is a penalty ferendae sententiae and a penalty latae sententiae (c. 1314)? Which kind of penalty is generally found in the code (c. 1314)?
What is the difference between imposing and declaring a penalty?
What kinds of circumstances could prompt a legislator to establish a latae sententiae penalty (c. 1318)?
Who can issue a penal law (c. 1315 §1)?
Who can issue a penal precept (c. 1319 §1)?
What penalty cannot be imposed by a diocesan bishop in a particular penal law (c. 1317)?

Title III - The Subject Liable to Penal Sanctions (cc. 1321-1330)
What is the difference between imputability by reason or malice versus negligence (c. 1321)?
What presumptio iuris is contained in the code regarding imputability (c. 1321 §3)?
Which persons are incapable of a delict (c. 1322)?
Give examples of persons who are not subject to a penalty even when they violate a law or a precept (c. 1323).
Give examples of persons who may be penalized, but the penalty must be tempered when they violate a law or a precept (c. 1324).
Why is it not accurate to describe a latae sententiae penalty as "automatic"? In other words, give some circumstances in which the commission of a delict does not automatically result in the incursion of a penalty (cc. 1322-1324)?
When can a judge impose a more severe penalty than established by a law or a precept (c. 1326)?
What discretion does a judge have to impose a penalty when deciding a case for which a latae sentetiae penalty is established by law (c. 1326 §2)?
How are conspirators or accomplices punished in the code (c. 1329)?

Title IV - Penalties and Other Punishments (cc. 1331-1340)
What is forbidden of an excommunicated person with respect to sacraments and liturgical actions (c. 1331 §1, 1º-2º and §2, 1º)?
What is forbidden of an excommunicated person with respect to ecclesiastical offices and placements of acts of governance (c. 1331 §1, 3º and §2, 2º-5º)?
What is forbidden of an interdicted person with respect to sacraments and liturgical actions (c. 1332)?
With respect to ecclesiastical offices and acts of governance (see c. 1332)?
What may be prohibited of a suspended cleric (c. 1333)?
Under what circumstances are the effects of a latae sententiae censure suspended (cc. 1335 and 1352 §2)?
What kinds of expiatory penalties cannot be incurred latae sententiae (c. 1336)

Title V - The Application of Penalties (cc. 1341-1353)
An ordinary should not initiate a penal process unless he determines that no method of pastoral solicitude can sufficiently do what three things listed in canon 1341? These can be said to be the three purposes for imposing penalties in the code.
What penalties cannot be imposed by decree (c. 1342)?
What penalties cannot be imposed when the law threatens only an indeterminate penalty (c. 1349)?
How may a judge temper a determinate facultative penalty (c. 1343)?
How may a judge temper a determinate perceptive penalty (c. 1344)?
What is contumacy? What is required before a censure is imposed (c. 1347)? What is required when a person has withdrawn from contumacy (c. 1358)?
What provisions must be made even for a penalized cleric (c. 1350 §1)? What is owed to a cleric who is dismissed from the clerical state (c. 1350 §2)?
What effect does the appeal of a judicial sentence or taking recourse against a penal decree have on the observance of a penalty (c. 1353)?

Title VI - The Cessation of Penalties (cc. 1354-1363)
Who can remit a penalty in virtue of the executive power of governance they exercise (c. 1354)?
What two ordinaries can remit a penalty established by law or by precept (cc. 1355-1356)?
Even if reserved to the Apostolic See, who can remit an undeclared latae sententiae censure (c. 1357)?
When does prescription extinguish a criminal action (c. 1362)?
Part II - Penalties for Individual Delicts (cc. 1364-1399)
What delicts are related to the celebration of Mass or the Eucharist (cc. 1365, 1367, 1378 §2 1º, and 1385)?
What delicts are related to confession (cc. 1378 §1 and §2 2º, 1387, 1388, and 1390 §1)?
What delicts are related to an attack against a person (cc. 1370 and 1397)?
What delicts are related to the use of ecclesiastical goods (c. 1375, 1376, 1377, 1380, and 1385)?
What delicts can only be committed by a bishop (cc. 1382 and 1383)?
What delicts are related to the commitment to chastity by clerics and religious (cc. 1387, 1394 and 1395)?
What delicts are related to the provision or exercise of an ecclesiastical office (c. 1381, 1389, and 1396)?
Give an example of a delict for which the penalty is incurred latae sententiae (cc. 1364 §1, 1367, 1370 §§1 and 2, 1378 §§1 and 2, 1382, 1388 §1, 1390 §1, 1394 §§1 and 2, and 1398).
Give an example of a delict reserved to the Apostolic See (cc. 1367, 1370 §1, 1378 §1, 1382, and 1388 §1).
Give examples of delicts for which the penalty is perceptive (e.g. cc. 1365, 1366, 1368, et al.) or facultative (e.g. cc. 1375, 1384, 1390 §2, 1391, and 1393).
Give examples of delicts for which the penalty is excommunication (cc. 1364 §1, 1367, 1370 §1, 1378 §§1 and 3, 1382, 1388, and 1398)?
Give examples of delicts for which the penalty is interdict (cc. 1370 §2, 1373, 1374, 1378 §2, 1380, 1390 §1, and 1394 §2)?
Give examples of delicts for which the penalty is suspension (cc. 1370 §2, 1378 §2, 1380, 1387, 1390 §1, 1394 §1, 1395 §1)?
What delicts carry the possible penalty of dismissal from the clerical state (c. 1364 §2, 1367, 1370 §1, 1387, 1394 §1, and 1395 §§1 and 2)?
Give examples of delicts for which the penalty is determinate (e.g. c. 1383 or others listed above).
Give examples of delicts for which the penalty is indeterminate (e.g. cc. 1365, 1366, 1368, 1369, et al.).
Give examples of delicts for which the penalty is perpetual (cc. 1387, 1389 §1, 1394 §1, 1396, 1397, or others listed above).
What is the significance of the last canon listed under individual delicts (c. 1399)?
Other questions
What document governs the graviora delicta reserved to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith?
If one of the graviora delicta is discovered that was committed before November 27, 1983 and the CDF dispenses prescription, by what law is the delict judged and what law governs the procedure to be observed?
What is the significance of discovering that a delict of the sexual abuse of a minor by a cleric was committed before or after April 25, 1994?