Father Lombardi pointed out to reporters that the Code of Canon Law provides the penalty of excommunication for anyone directly involved in abortion. That penalty would apply to politicians who support the legalization of abortion, he said.
The Vatican spokesman added that the excommunication in these cases is applied latae sententiae— that is, automatically— and does not require any public announcement.
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It is AUTOMATIC - requiring no announcement or intervention by any Church authority. It does not matter what the American bishops say or believe.
I don’t think it could be much more clear than Lombardi makes it here.
Uh huh, and yet these politicians continue to participate in the eucharist, etc. I wasn't aware that those who had been excommunicated could still participate in the sacraments.
(Remarkably IGNORED by US bishops for almost 35 years now as they loudly (and not-so-loudly) support anti-war, proabortion, anti-freedom, pro-socialist democrats for 35 years.)