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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
So basically every time you sin you are excommunicated until you go to confession and do your penance? You just don't have a priest declaring it to the world that you've been excommunicated for having dirty thoughts about your boss!?
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According the The Wiki, there are 8 instances where
latae sententiae excommunication occurs:
- an apostate from the faith, a heretic, or a schismatic;
- a person who throws away the consecrated Eucharistic species or takes and retains them for a sacrilegious purpose;
- a person who uses physical force against the Pope;
- a priest who uses confession as a pretext to solicit the confessor to break the commandment against adultery;
- a bishop who ordains someone a bishop without a pontifical mandate, and the person who receives the ordination from him;
- a confessor who directly violates the sacramental seal of confession;
- a person who procures a completed abortion; and
- accomplices who are not named in a law prescribing latae sententiae excommunication but without whose assistance the violation of the law would not have been committed.