[kosta50]

I do not have a belief in the Ten Commandments

Sure oyu do. You have no way of knowing if God really said that. You choose to believe it.

I agree that the pro-abort politicians have incurred an automatic excommunication and that their bishops should withhold communion from them for their own good

For their own good? What about the Church skirting her own responsibility? If you teach your children that teaching is wrong and one of children admits stealing and you do nothing about it, what message are you giving and how hypocritical is that?

What Kolokotronis argues is based on deliberate misrepresentation of the Catholic Pro-life teaching

He used the exact words of the bishop in question stating that abortion is the most important belief necessary for salvation. Perhaps the correct thing would be to say that perhaps his Eminence misspoke rather than to say that Kolo deliberately misrepresents what the Church teaches?

[annalex]

Belief in the Old Testament stories aside, I obey the Ten Commandments in their substance as Natural Law and not as a dogma revealed through the Church, although the Church, of course, instructs me in it as well.

Excommunication serves two purposes: it prevents the sinner from taking the sacraments unworthily for his own good, and it informs the faithful of the falsity of a particular behavior or belief.

For what bishop Martino said, see 72 and the link in 67. I am correct and Kolokotronis and now you are wrong, as anyone who can read should see.