And yet Ted Kennedy is still Catholic ? When the church gets serious you’ll know it.
Excommunication can exist whether or not the Church has formally declared someone to be excommunicated.
Kennedy excommunicated himself latae sententiae about 60 years ago.
Just a question, do they excommunicate Protestants?
Isn't he divorced and remarried outside the church? If so, he's not supposed to be receiving communion anywhere.
In any case, Abp. Chaput doesn't have much to say about Teddy one way or the other, unless Chaput is moved to Boston or Kennedy moves to Denver. It would be like the governor of Kentucky threatening to prosecute a Californian for a crime committed in California.