Excommunication

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Hi ppls! 😃

I am just curious…
what does it take to get excommunicated? :confused:

From Evanescence 🙂

P.S sorry if this thread has already been done, i’m new here! :bounce:
 
stbruno said:
newadvent.org/cathen/05678a.htm This is a seriously long link from the Catholic encyclopedia, but it covers more than you can ever want to know about this penalty of the church.

Hope you read it!

Note that this writeup is from before the 1917 Code of Canon Law. Today we are under the 1983 Code of Canon Law, which has many fewer grounds for excommunication.
 
Canon 1364 §1 An apostate from the faith, a heretic or a schismatic incurs a latae sententiae excommunication, without prejudice to the provision of Can. 194 §1, n. 2; a cleric, moreover, may be punished with the penalties mentioned in Can. 1336 §1, nn. 1, 2 and 3.

Canon 1367 One who throws away the consecrated species or, for a sacrilegious purpose, takes them away or keeps them, incurs a latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See; a cleric, moreover, may be punished with some other penalty, not excluding dismissal from the clerical state.

Canon 1370 §1 A person who uses physical force against the Roman Pontiff incurs a latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See; if the offender is a cleric, another penalty, not excluding dismissal from the clerical state, may be added according to the gravity of the crime.

Canon 1378 §1 A priest who acts against the prescription of Can. 977 incurs a latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See.

§2 The following incur a latae sententiae interdict or, if a cleric, a latae sententiae suspension:

1° a person who, not being an ordained priest, attempts to celebrate Mass

2° a person who, apart from the case mentioned in §1, thoughunable to give valid sacramental absolution, attempts to do so, or hears a sacramental confession.

§3 In the cases mentioned in §2, other penalties, not excluding excommunication, can be added, according to the gravity of the offence.

Canon 1382 Both the Bishop who, without a pontifical mandate, consecrates a person a Bishop, and the one who receives the consecration from him, incur a latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See.

Canon 1388 §1 A confessor who directly violates the sacramental seal, incurs a latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See; he who does so only indirectly is to be punished according to the gravity of the offence.

§2 Interpreters and the others mentioned in can. 983 §2, who violate the secret, are to be punished with a just penalty, not excluding excommunication.

Canon 1398 A person who actually procures an abortion incurs a latae sententiae excommunication.

Canon 1329 §1 Where a number of persons conspire together to commit an offence, and accomplices are not expressly mentioned in the law or precept, if ferendae sententiae penalties were constituted for the principal offender, then the others are subject to the same penalties or to other penalties of the same or a lesser gravity.

§2 In the case of a latae sententiae penalty attached to an offence, accomplices, even though not mentioned in the law or precept, incur the same penalty if, without their assistance, the crime would not have been committed, and if the penalty is of such a nature as to be able to affect them; otherwise, they can be punished with ferendae sententiae penalties.

Canons 1323 and 1324 contain mitigating factors.
 
Yes, but is the excommunication automatic in all cases or does someone in authority have to literally drum out the person being excommunicated, that is ring the bell, close the book and blow out the candle?
 
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Yes, but is the excommunication automatic in all cases or does someone in authority have to literally drum out the person being excommunicated, that is ring the bell, close the book and blow out the candle?
The Latin term latae sententiae means automatic. The seven grounds listed above were all automatic. It is also possible for these excommunications to be explicitly handed down from an ecclesiastical authority; the Latin term for this is ferendae sententiae.

For example, see here.
 
The Catholic Church doesn’t excommunicate people. People excommunicate themselves with actions that break their communion with the Church. The Church rarely recognizes this excommunication formally.
 
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