How can I be absolved of latae sententiae excommunication?

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I may have incurred an automatic excommunication during my more than 10 years away from religion altogether. Apostosy, heresy, atheism, and blasphemy are my concerns.

When I reverted to the Faith, I made a long, long confession that I had spent days preparing through deep examination of conscience. The priest gave me absolution in that confession, too.

But was I/am I still excommunicated by my own words, actions, and beliefs during that previous life?
 
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If you needed to do anything else, the priest would have told you.

Be at peace.
 
Ask the priest who helped you if he contacted the Holy See. Fr. @edward_george1 posted about this on the Ask a Priest Anything About Confession thread.
 
You’ll need to talk to the priest again and make sure he understands clearly your situation. If you have in fact been excommunicated like you stated, the priest would need permission from the bishop in order to reinstate you.
 
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I may have incurred an automatic excommunication during my more than 10 years away from religion altogether. Apostosy, heresy, atheism, and blasphemy are my concerns.

When I reverted to the Faith, I made a long, long confession that I had spent days preparing through deep examination of conscience. The priest gave me absolution in that confession, too.

But was I/am I still excommunicated by my own words, actions, and beliefs during that previous life?
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The (Latin) priest can lift the automatic penalty for heresy, apostacy, or schism in the Sacrament of Penance in addition to giving absolution since they are not reserved to the Holy See. But there may not have been an automatic penalty. In order for it to be applied, conditions must be satisfied, such as, the penitent who, without negligence, did not know prior to the action itself that the sin carried the automatic penalty with it, the sin cannot have been performed out of fear or force, the penitent must have been over age sixteen, not have imperfect use of reason, sufficient reflection, etc. A complete list of these conditions is given in Latin canon law CIC Can. 1324.
 
I think Fr. @edward_george1 could still help you. Check the confession thread though. You might find an answer there.
 
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The (Latin) priest can lift the automatic penalty for heresy, apostacy, or schism in the Sacrament of Penance in addition to giving absolution since they are not reserved to the Holy See.
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Where is that exact part written?
 
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Vico:
The (Latin) priest can lift the automatic penalty for heresy, apostacy, or schism in the Sacrament of Penance in addition to giving absolution since they are not reserved to the Holy See.
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Where is that exact part written?
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Latin Canon Law (CIC)

TITLE VI: THE CESSATION OF PENALTIES (Cann. 1354 - 1363)​

Can. 1355

§1 Provided it is not reserved to the Apostolic See, a penalty which is established by law and has been imposed or declared, can be remitted by the following:
1° the Ordinary who initiated the judicial proceedings to impose or declare the penalty, or who by a decree, either personally or through another, imposed or declared it;
2° the Ordinary of the place where the offender actually is, after consulting the Ordinary mentioned in n. 1, unless because of extraordinary circumstances this is impossible.

§2 Provided it is not reserved to the Apostolic See, a latae sententiae penalty established by law but not yet declared, can be remitted by the Ordinary in respect of his subjects and of those actually in his territory or of those who committed the offence in his territory. Moreover, any Bishop can do this, but only in the course of sacramental confession.
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Also:
Can. 1330 §1 An offence which consists in a declaration or in some other manifestation of doctrine or knowledge, is not to be regarded as effected if no one actually perceives the declaration or manifestation.
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I may have incurred an automatic excommunication
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Or, on the other hand, you may not. Only a canon lawyer can give you a firm answer one way or the other, but from what you have told us here, I expect you will find that you never incurred excommunication at all.
 
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a latae sententiae penalty established by law but not yet declared, can be remitted by the Ordinary in respect of his subjects and of those actually in his territory or of those who committed the offence in his territory.
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This whole “territory” business… I received absolution from a priest in one place, near where I lived, but which wasn’t my parish at that point in time.
 
All of this is moot. You weren’t excommunicated. You’ve been told this repeatedly. Your question has been answered by, among others, a canonist.

Be at peace. Don’t busy yourself with this anymore.
 
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