Interesting quote by Dr. Droleskey:

It was because of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI's repeated embrace of the separation of Church and State in the first year of his "pontificate" in 2005 that I began to take seriously the simple truth that no one who defects from the Catholic Faith is a member of the Church and is thus excluded from holding ecclesiastical office legitimately. Such a person has fallen from the Faith by virtue of violating the Divine Positive Law just as surely as one who commits a Mortal Sin falls from a State of Grace. No "declaration" is need for the latter. No "declaration" is needed for the former. We can use the reason that God gave us to see that Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI has embraced a concept, separation of Church and State, that has been condemned by pope after pope. Those who want to make this complex or opaque are doing the cause of truth and the rights of Christ the King a grave disservice.