On July 13, 1949, Pope Pius XII issued a decree stating that Catholics who advocate Communism are excommunicated from the Catholic Church. This decree applies today.
The decree doesn’t explicitly condemn those who vote for Communists or who support the Communist Party, but excommunicates those who hold to the atheistic doctrines of Communism. The Church judges such persons to be apostates.
The 1949 decree 2 was preceded by a previous Vatican decree published by L’Osservatore Romano on July 15, 1948, which excommunicated those who propagate “the materialistic and anti-Christian teachings of Communism.”
Moreover, a subsequent document dated April 4, 1959, from the Holy Office and ratified by Pope John XXIII made the provisions of the July 1949 decree more specific, stating that it implied a prohibition on voting for parties who abet Communists, even if such parties adhered to Christian doctrine.
What shall we say of Pope Francis who openly abets Communists and who has repeatedly said, “It is the Communists who think like Christians?” He praises and surrounds himself with avowed Communists like Cardinal Parolin and has advanced the canonization of Communist “Archbishop” Helder Camara whose priestly ordination was invalid because of his Nazi-Marxist activism.
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