[redville]

The formal excommunication (read: expulsion from the Church) of a United States presidential candidate will not be announced by a low-level Dominican priest.

I have to agree with your assessment, unfortunately. Being a Catholic, myself, I am subscribed to a lot of mailing lists, including ones within the Church itself and my inbox would be flooded by now if this was the case.

[sitetest]

Dear redville,

In the case of an automatic excommunication, no formal pronouncement is required. No canonical trial is required. No mention of it by the hierarchy at all is required. The excommunication operates automatically as spelled out in Canon Law.

An abortionist need not be formally excommunicated.

Neither does a public heretic.

No, I think that the Vatican has told us what it is wishes to be known, but in the way that it wishes for it to be known.


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