Blog: Bishop says pro-aborts excommunicate themselves automatically.

While a formal notice from a bishop provides a clear and definite sign, excommunication is actually done by the person to himself according to Bishop Camino of Madrid.  So, the politicians who vote for abortion laws and policies automatically cut themselves off from salvation offered through the Church.  While it may be difficult to enforce, these politicians need to be honest enough to exclude themselves from Holy Communion because they are in a state of public sin.  If they persist in receiving the sacred species, then they exacerbate their fault with sacrilege.

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MADRID, November 13, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The secretary general of the Spanish bishops' conference, Auxiliary Bishop Juan Antonio Martinez Camino of Madrid, warned that Spanish Catholic legislators who vote in favor of a bill to liberalize abortion which is currently before parliament would publicly place themselves in an "objective state of sin" and therefore may not receive Communion.

Excommunication is provided in the Code of Canon Law for those who cooperate actively in the practice of abortion," Bishop Martinez Camino stated in an AFP report.

He said Catholics cannot support the legalization of abortion and if they do "they will objectively find themselves in a public state of sin and may not be admitted to Holy Communion."

While "the Church cannot judge their subjectivity," he added, those who "directly collaborate" in or promote abortion incur excommunication.