So every Catholic who sins is automatically excommunicated by their very act of sin?
That doesn’t make any sense. I bet there are a bunch of Catholics who would argue a sin does not, by its commission, excommunicate you.
Nope. Didn’t say that. Nice try tho.
By the way, the article referenced has nothing to say about excommunication, Hitler’s religion, or purgatory. It IS a proposal that Martin Luther created an environment that made Nazism possible or probable. I’d be interested in your well thought out refutations of the authors points. Right now all I can figure is you have none, as evidenced by your, and others, efforts to throw up as many straw men as you can to avoid the topic of the article.
Particular sins result in latae sententiae excommunication. They're spelled out in canon law.
One such sin is a violent attack on a priest or religious. When Hitler ordered or approved the shooting of priests during the invasion of Poland, that qualified.