XXXIII. Of excommunicate Persons, how
they are to be avoided.
That person which by open denunciation
of the Church is rightly cut off from the unity of the Church, and
excommunicated, ought to be taken of the whole multitude of the faithful, as
an Heathen and Publican, until he be openly reconciled by penance, and
received into the Church by a Judge that hath the authority thereunto.