Be sure to correct Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI when he asks you about Canon Law or Church Doctrine.
The Pope was asked whether he supported Mexican Church leaders threatening to excommunicate leftist parliamentarians who last month voted to legalize abortion in Mexico City.
"Yes, this excommunication was not an arbitrary one but is allowed by Canon (church) law which says that the killing of an innocent child is incompatible with receiving communion, which is receiving the body of Christ," he said.
"They (Mexican Church leaders) did nothing new, surprising or arbitrary. They simply announced publicly what is contained in the law of the Church... which expresses our appreciation for life and that human individuality, human personality is present from the first moment (of life)".
Under Church law, someone who knowingly does or backs something which the Church considers a grave sin, such as abortion, inflicts what is known as "automatic excommunication" on themselves.
You might want to notify the Pope and tell him that he wasn’t supposed to give Biden and Pelosi communion the other day, and you may want to let him know to update his figures on how many Catholics live in the United States, and reduce that official number by about 56%.
Do you expect to see the Vatican releasing new numbers of the catholic population in America, which are only 44% of the current numbers?
Do you think that the fact that 56% of American Catholics don’t exist at all, that they have been excommunicated, might be reported somewhere?
I believe that the Pope corrected that statement and that the transcript was produced changing the language of what you posted.
“Church officials later said the pope may have thought the Mexican bishops had issued a formal declaration of excommunication for the legislators — something Mexican Cardinal Norberto Rivera has said he has no intention of doing.
Benedict’s spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said the pope was not setting a new policy, and did not intend to formally excommunicate anyone — a rare process under church law that is separate from the doctrine of self-excommunication.
“Since excommunication hasn’t been declared by the Mexican bishops, the pope has no intention himself of declaring it,” Lombardi said in a statement approved by the pope.
But Lombardi added that politicians who vote in favor of abortion should not receive the sacrament of Holy Communion. “Legislative action in favor of abortion is incompatible with participation in the Eucharist. ... Politicians exclude themselves from Communion.”
Pressed again to say whether the lawmakers were excommunicated, Lombardi reiterated: “No, they exclude themselves from Communion.”