By Selwyn Duke
Given how Senator Tim Kaine (shown) just announced that the Catholic Church may soon follow his lead and change its “position” on marriage, it sounds more like he aspires to be pope than a vice president. But while that church status is unavailable to him, he may already have another: the excommunicated.
At issue is something called “automatic excommunication,” or excommunication latae sententiae, Latin for “sentence [already] passed.” It occurs when a Catholic commits certain offenses, such as procuring an abortion or, in the case of a priest, breaking the seal of confession. Relevant to Kaine’s situation, however, is section 1364 of the Code of Canon Law, which states that “an apostate from the faith, a heretic, or a schismatic incurs alatae sententiae excommunication.”
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