When she persists in pushing pro-abortion legislation, I hope her ex-communication becomes public.
Biden should be next.
Excommunication is just one particular penalty the Church CAN use to bring some people to their senses. The fact that someone is NOT excommunicated does NOT mean that he/she is a good Catholic. Hitler was never excommunicated. Some people who wish to smear the Church pretend that this constitutes an ENDORSEMENT of Hitler. What it really means is that the Church recognized the Hitler was hopeless.
The Denial of Communion is not a penalty, and it is an OBLIGATION on the part of all ministers of Communion. It is specified in Canon 915.
Note, it is NOT a “penalty,” i.e., not a punishment which the Church MAY use. It is, rather, a grave obligation.
This means that all those bishops who claim that denying Communion is a “penalty,” or a “sanction,” are LIARS. Those who say “that’s not my style” are also LIARS. When something is OBLIGATORY, it’s not a matter of style.
Archbishop Donald Wuerl of Washington has told three major lies, in public, about this obligation.
1) That it’s a penalty or a sanction;
2) That it’s a matter of his “style”;
3) That it’s the responsibility of the “home” bishop of a politician.
All falsehoods. The obligation to deny Communion to these people is the responsibility of the minister of Communion. That means any bishop, priest, deacon, or Extraordinary Minister of Communion. It has nothing to do with the person’s place of residence.
Every bishop who is refusing to obey Canon 915 is obstinately persisting in manifest grave sin. I.e., in slightly less precise, but more common parlance: They are daily committing mortal sin, by refusing to obey Canon 915, and BY RECEIVING COMMUNION THEMSELVES!