Could I be excommunicated and not know it?

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I started to think about the auto excomm for abortions/helping with abortions and then wondered, “What if there are other sins that have auto excomms attached”

What if I’m excommunicated automatically for something and I don’t know it. Is there a list?
 
Don’t worry, you can’t be excommunicated and not know it. One of the requirements for the penalty is that the person knows that what they are doing carries a penalty of excommunication (canon 1323).

The 1983 Code of Canon Law attaches the penalty of automatic excommunication to the following actions:
  • Apostates, heretics, and schismatics (canon 1364)
  • Desecration of the Eucharist (canon 1367)
  • A person who physically attacks the Pope (canon 1370)
  • A priest who in confession solicits another to violate the 6th commandment (canon 1378)
  • A bishop who consecrates another bishop without Papal Mandate (canon 1382)
  • A priest who violates the seal of the confessional (canon 1388)
  • A person who procures an abortion (canon 1398)
  • Accomplices who were needed to commit an action that has an automatic excommunication penalty (canon 1329)
 
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