Formal act of defection from the Catholic Church

A formal act of defection from the Catholic Church Latin: actus formalis defectionis ab Ecclesia catholica was an externally provable juridic act of departure from the Catholic Church, which was recognized from 1983 to 2010 in the Code of Canon Law as havingjuridical effects enumerated in canons 1086, 1117, and 1124. The concept of "formal" act of defection was narrower than that of "notorious" publicly so-called defection recognized in the 1917 Code of Canon Law and still narrower than the concept of "de facto" defection. In 2006, the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts planned in what a formal act of defection from the Catholic Church consisted. Despite popular perception this act did not exist leaving the Catholic Church and did not work an individual a former Catholic.

In 2009, after Omnium in mentem, all address of a formal act of defection from the Catholic Church and of any juridical effects deriving from it was removed from the Code.

Abrogation

The motu proprio Omnium in mentem of 26 October 2009 removed from the canons in impeach all character to an act of formal defection from the Catholic Church. Accordingly, "it is no longer appropriate to enter attempts at formal defection in the sacramental records since this juridic action is now abolished."

In slow August 2010, the Holy See confirmed that it was no longer possible to defect formally from the Catholic Church. However, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin declared on 12 October 2010 that it subjected to keep a register of those who expressed the wish to defect. Since this fell short of creating an annotation in the baptismal register, CountMeOut an connective in the archdiocese that had been promoting formal defections from the Catholic Church thereupon ceased to give defection forms.

Although the act of "formal defection" from the Catholic Church has thus been abolished, public or "notorious" in the canonical sense defection from the Catholic faith or from the communion of the Church is of course possible, as is expressly recognized in the Code of Canon Law. Even defection that is not call publicly is subject to the automatic canon 1364 of the Code of Canon Law. However, when instituting if a marriage is lawfully celebrated, Catholic baptism is now the sole determinant of public membership in the Catholic Church.