Automatic Excommunication?

The internet is abuzz with talk about the Pope's statement regarding excommunication and abortion. (Read more here, here, and here.) The reports do seem a little preemptive and almost shot from the hip. Cannon lawyer Dr. Edward Peters lays out the difference between Excommunication and Denial of the Eucharist on his blog. Be careful of anything the MSM reports when it comes to the Roman Catholic Church, or Christianity period!