Impediments and Irregularities for Ordination

Question 1

Impediment

Answer 1

What bars a man from the reception of orders. Can be simple or perpetual.

Question 2

Irregularity

Answer 2

a perpetual impediment

Question 3

6 Irregularites

Answer 3

1. Insanity or Psychological infirmity
2. Apostasy,heresy or schism
3. Attempted Marriage (Either under vows or with someone under vows)
4. Willful homicide or abortion (actual procurement or cooperation)
5. Grave mutilation of self or other or attempted suicide
6. One who has carried out an act of order proper to priesthood or episcopate which not possessing the order or being barred by some declared or imposed penalty

Question 4

3 Simple Impediments

Answer 4

1. A man who has a wife, unless bound for permanent diaconate
2. One who exercises an office or administration forbidden to clerics of which he must render an account until he has been freed from it
3. A neophyte, unless he has been sufficiently tested, by judgment of the ordinary