Are heretics still excommunicated?

[misstherese]

There are a few clergy members lately in the public eye who say pretty obviously heretical things. I’m just wondering, does the church still excommunicate heretics?

 

[De_Maria]

There are a few clergy members lately in the public eye who say pretty obviously heretical things. I’m just wondering, does the church still excommunicate heretics?

Yes.

Pope Francis excommunicates Australian priest

An Australian priest who supports the ordination of women has been excommunicated by Pope Francis.

In the first such excommunication since the new pontiff took office Fr Greg Reynolds was dismissed in a letter from the Archbishop of Melbourne Denis Hart, which stated that “the decision by Pope Francis to dismiss Fr Reynolds from the clerical state and to declare his automatic excommunication has been made because of his public teaching on the ordination of women contrary to the teaching of the Church and his public celebration of the Eucharist when he did not hold faculties to act publicly as a priest.”

 

[Mattapoisett64]

There are a few clergy members lately in the public eye who say pretty obviously heretical things. I’m just wondering, does the church still excommunicate heretics?

Would you perchance be thinking of Fr. Martin? And no, he hasn’t been excommunicated, nor is he likely to be.

 

[1ke]

There are a few clergy members lately in the public eye who say pretty obviously heretical things.

Which doesn’t mean they are a heretic.

I’m just wondering, does the church still excommunicate heretics?

Yes, the Church does have canonical penalties up to and including excommunication for those in formal heresy.

 

[1ke]

Would you perchance be thinking of Fr. -----? And no, he hasn’t been excommunicated, nor is he likely to be.

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