Dr Edward Peters: Uta Ranke-Heinemann's alleged excommunication

Uta Ranke-Heinemann, the German theologian who in 1985 became the first woman to receive, and in 1987 the first to forfeit, a major chair in Catholic theology, is in the news again, this time using Cdl. Lehmann's announcement that he will step down as chairman of the German episcopal conference as the occasion to remind folks that she was a classmate of famous figures like Lehmann and Ratzinger. [PS note: reported here]

There's nothing new in her remarks; they are assessed elsewhere.

But I paused over Ranke-Heinemann's claim (at times, it sounds more like a boast) to have been excommunicated. I wonder, when exactly was that?

Read more about this at: http://www.canonlaw.info/2008/01/uta-ranke-heinemanns-alleged.html