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  • Benedict backs excommunication for pro-abortion pollies

    05/16/2007 1:57:14 PM PDT · by malibu2008 · 73 replies · 1,316+ views
    Catholic News ^ | May 10, 2007 | Pope Benedict XVI
    <p>"Yes, this excommunication was not an arbitrary one but is allowed by Canon (church) law which says that the killing of an innocent child is incompatible with receiving communion, which is receiving the body of Christ," he said.</p> <p>Under Church law, someone who knowingly does or backs something which the Church considers a grave sin, such as abortion, inflicts what is known as "automatic excommunication" on themselves.</p>