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What circumstances may cause a Catholic priest to be defrocked?
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In Catholic terms, a priest is laicized rather than defrocked, as defrocked is too imprecise a word. Laicization suspends the lawful use of the ecclesiastical powers held by a priest. It is used as an extreme penalty for intransigent priests in matters of teachings and jurisdiction or in order to punish gross crimes. A priest may be laicized for inciting and perpetuating schism, for stubbornly teaching heresy, for ordaining women, profaning the sacraments, profaning the priesthood, for gross sexual misconduct, for grave crimes such as murder, etc. It is usually the local ordinary (bishop) or the pope that weighs the circumstances, the crimes and the behavior and expressed intentions of the violator whether to proceed with such a grave penalty.
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