This means you can repent and confess you were wrong and likely be back in good standing with the Church again.Your Baptism is still valid etc... Those who have WILLFULLY left the Church have essentially been excommunicated for the time being by their choice to leave or for other reasons.
Here is what Canon Law says...
Can. 694 §1. A member must be held as ipso facto dismissed from an institute who:
1/ has defected notoriously from the Catholic faith.
And ...
§2. Nevertheless, the institute is to observe equity and the charity of the gospel toward a member who is separated from it.
The following is what ex Catholics(like on FR)are guilty of
Can. 1369 A person who in a public show or speech, in published writing, or in other uses of the instruments of social communication utters blasphemy, gravely injures good morals, expresses insults, or excites hatred or contempt against religion or the Church is to be punished with a just penalty.
Salvation is not in error since you can most likely come back
Can. 1369 A person who in a public show or speech, in published writing, or in other uses of the instruments of social communication utters blasphemy, gravely injures good morals, expresses insults, or excites hatred or contempt against religion or the Church is to be punished with a just penalty.
Salvation is not in error since you can most likely come back
LOL. So what "just penalty" do you desire for those who have shaken the dust of Rome off their feet?
Will the RCC send them to bed with no supper? Burn them at the stake? Or maybe the RCC thinks it will withhold its sacrilegious sacraments from them. Which would proves once again that "all things work for the good of those who are the called according to His purpose" since God would then be restraining them from partaking in the idolatry of the eucharistic mass and assorted other inventions of Rome.
Salvation was wrong. Ex-Roman Catholics are not still Roman Catholic. Many are, by the grace of God alone, now Bible-believing Christians.