“Weninger disingenuously asserted that the confusion over whether Catholic Freemasons are excommunicated stems from a contradiction between the 1983 Code of Canon Law — which, he contends, removed the condemnation of Freemasonry contained in the 1917 code — and a damning 1983 declaration from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF).
However, an expert in Canon Law demolished Weninger’s claim as “nonsense.” Speaking to Church Militant on condition of anonymity, the canonist insisted that “the Code of Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church still provides that a censure of Excommunication for Freemasons is incurred automatically (‘latae sententiae’) pursuant to canon 1364, par. 1 CIC 1983, because Freemasons constitute an heretical sect and Freemasonry universally is a heretical belief system.”
Canon 1364 §1 reads: “An apostate from the faith, a heretic or a schismatic incurs a latae sententiae excommunication, without prejudice to the provision of Can. 194 §1, n. 2; a cleric, moreover, may be punished with the penalties mentioned in Can. 1336 §1, nn. 1, 2 and 3.”
“This clearly results from the Pontifical Code Commission’s Relatio published in 1981,” he explained.”
Source Article: https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/vatican-cleric-is-recruiting-freemasons-in-roman-curia
