Article 73

73.--

§ 1.--A member is to be held automatically dismissed from the Congregation if he:

1 has notoriously abandoned the Catholic faith;

2 has contracted marriage or has attempted it, even civilly.

§ 2.--In these cases the major superior with his council, after gathering together the evidence, shall without delay make a declaration of the fact so that the dismissal is juridically established according to the norm of canon 694.

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