Zerinus, do a Google search of “latae sententiae”, then continue the discussion. You are misunderstanding the whole point of it. The most prominent example of latae sententiae excommunication is abortion. If you do that search, you will see it upheld that a Catholic that receives an abortion is “automatically excommunicated”. Similarly, a Catholic that believes heretical doctrines, such as the Father having a body of flesh and bones, would also be “automatically excommunicated”. That is what excommunication latae sententiae means. I have already cited the Canon Law that defines what a heretic is, what an apostate is, etc. I don’t have to declare why me anything, the Canon Law defines it. So please, try again. You may not agree with it, but this is standard Catholic doctrine, on excommunication latae sententiae.
"In the Canon Law of the Catholic Church, the term latae sententiae refers to a penalty that is incurred automatically without the need for a Bishop or other Church superior explicitely declaring it.
The latae sententiae penalty is always connected to a specific offence, so if someone commits such an offense, he/she is automatically subjected to the penalty, providing the general conditions of being punishable are met (such as age, free will, etc).
Only those penalties are latae sententiae that Canon Law expressly declares as such. All others are ferendae sententiae and do not apply until a Church authority officially proclaims them." (which is what you keep referring to, and which I am not even talking about).
From the Catholic Encyclopedia:
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“The spiritual penalties are of two kinds: latae and ferendae sententiae. The former are incurred by the mere fact of heresy**, no judicial sentence being required; the latter are inflicted after trial by an ecclesiastical court, or by a bishop acting ex informata conscientia, that is, on his own certain knowledge, and dispensing with the usual procedure”
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“On the contrary, excommunication is occult when the offence entailing it is known to no one or almost no one.”**
Clearly, you are wrong here. No one needs to be declared by an authority to be in heresy or apostasy to be declared excommunicated latae sententiae. They are excommunicated by the simple fact of what they have done. It is clear what joining a false (in the Church’s view) church is. It doesn’t need to be explicitly stated.
Again, read before commenting on this.
If Starbuck’s is named after a character in “Battlestar Galactica”, does that make Starbuck’s a house of worship ?
They can syncrete all they want, but they only have to get back to the beginning, which is the end. 
