Editing Interdict (section)

==Definition==
An interdict is a censure, or prohibition, excluding the faithful from participation in certain holy things, such as the [[Liturgy]], the [[sacraments]] (excepting private administrations of those that are of necessity), and ecclesiastical burial, including all funeral services.<ref name=Boudinhon>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08073a.htm Boudinhon, Auguste. "Interdict." The Catholic Encyclopedia] Vol. 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 26 January 2023 {{PD-notice}}</ref>

The prohibition varies in degree, according to the different kinds of interdicts. Interdicts are either local or personal. The former affect territories or sacred buildings; the latter directly affect persons. A general local interdict is one affecting a whole territory, district, town, etc., and this was the ordinary interdict of the Middle Ages; a particular local interdict is one affecting, for example, a particular church. A general personal interdict is one falling on a given body or group of people as a class, e.g. on a chapter, the clergy or people of a town, or a community; a particular personal interdict is one affecting certain individuals as such, for instance, a given bishop, a given cleric.<ref name=Boudinhon/>

Interdict differs from [[Excommunication in the Catholic Church|excommunication]], in that it does not cut one off from the communion of the faithful. It differs from suspension also in that the latter affects the faculties of clerics, while the interdict affects the access of the faithful to religious rites. While the clergy cannot exercise their functions towards those under interdict, or in interdicted places or buildings, their powers are not directly affected, as happens in case of suspension.<ref name=Boudinhon/>