There’s a lot of confusion surrounding the SSPX-related excommunications from last week, and I think a lot of the confusion (on both sides) stems from a misunderstanding of what an automatic excommunication is. When the Church says that a certain act brings about a “latae sententiae” (i.e., automatic) excommunication, what she is saying is that the act is so serious that…
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