"An Explanatory Note Cannot Excommunicate"
On 2 July, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, led by Cardinal Víctor Fernández, issued a decree and an accompanying explanatory note on the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X (FSSPX). InfoVaticana.com notes the two documents carry very different legal weight.
The decree declares that the six bishops directly involved in the 1 July illicit episcopal consecrations have incurred latae sententiae excommunication.
Canon law permits only a declaratory decree or judicial sentence to declare such penalties, limiting the decree's legal effect to those six bishops.
The explanatory note goes further, stating that FSSPX priests are in schism, and that lay faithful who formally adhere to the schism incur excommunication.
However, the note has no penal force because it is neither a law, a penal precept, nor a declaratory decree or judicial sentence, but simply a doctrinal explanation.
Furthermore, latae sententiae excommunication requires an individual assessment of culpability and cannot …More
Does that include:
1) Being in communion with Pachamama and similar deities?
2) Being in Communion with LGTB (Fiducia Suplicans)?
3) Being in Communion with those who call the Glorious Victory of The Cross "God's failure"?
4) Being in Communion with those who degrade The Blessed Mother of God by abolition of Mediatrix y Co-Redemptrix?
5) Being in Communion with Islam that proclaims that all that accept Jesus as God deserves hell and deny that Jesus was crucified on the Cross?
Why would an eagle want to forsake and abandon the glory of the soaring skies to live in a pigsty?
The explanatory note said "The Church, as a loving mother, will receive with sincere affection and pastoral solicitude all those who desire to return to full communion."
Has yet to happen for SSPX. Let's hope the Modernists will allow full communion with real Catholics!
Kissy should have handed this -- a legal document -- off to someone else to do. If he cared.
"The formula used by Tucho to excommunicate priests and laypeople lacks penal effectiveness"
But then again, we are dealing with the Synodal Church. The one where the majority rejected the working document but Pope Francis' encyclical included the working document as an appendix and said it was binding.
The next Synod will make these backpacks standard issue for all clergy.