Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith– Formal prohibition to join or favor Communist Parties – latae sententiae excommunication.
By collaborating with the Italian Communist Party, Prevost incurred automatic excommunication. We know that those who infiltrated the seminaries in the 1980s were denounced as homosexuals, Marxists, and Masons.
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith– Formal prohibition to join or favor Communist Parties – latae sententiae excommunication
The Italian Communist Party (notoriously a cell of the USSR, directly financed with Kremlin funds).
«For millions of Italians, from the end of the Second World War through the 1980s, personal identity was rooted in the Communist Party and its symbolism: “Sono comunista” (I am a Communist) was a statement not only of people’s political allegiance but of their core identity. For many, being identified as Communist was more salient and more satisfying than being identified as Italian.»
Far-left activist Luca Casarini states on his Facebook account that Prevost has not changed direction. "You have come a long way, Brother Robert. But you have not changed direction," Casarini commented in his post.