Lets call a spade a spade. I prefer the term "Excommunicated Catholic" for those who have left and now rail, a jure, against the Church. In the code of Catholic canon law currently in force, there are eight instances when a person may incur excommunication latæ sententiæ. One of these applies, ipso facto, to a number of the anti-catholics who frequent these threads. Apostates from the faith, a heretics, and schismatics have, by their own actions, severed Communion with the saints.
Lets call a spade a spade. I prefer the term "Excommunicated Catholic" for those who have left and now rail, a jure, against the Church.
Fair enough. I still think of them as failed Catholics, since they failed to grasp the Faith.
Apostates from the faith, a heretics, and schismatics have, by their own actions, severed Communion with the saints.
Self-excommunicated, then...