The esteemed list...

Here is the list of people that I am aiming to join: Those who have been excommunicated from the Catholic Church in the 21st century (courtesy of Wikipedia).

• Eduardo Aguirre, Guatemalan Catholic priest, now bishop of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church (1 person)
  
• Call to Action group members in Nebraska were excommunicated by Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz, Vatican later confirmed their excommunication. (Indeterminable amount of people, but clearly at least 2)
  
• Emmanual Milingo, former archbishop of Lusaka, for consecrating four bishops without the papal mandate. Also excommunicated were those receiving consecration. (5 people)
  
• The Community of the Lady of All Nations for heretical teachings and beliefs after a six-year investigation. The declaration was announced by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops on September 12, 2007. (7 people)
  
• Rev. Dale Fushek and Rev. Mark Dippre. Former Priests were issued a Decree of Excommunication by Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted for operating "an opposing ecclesial community" in direct disobedience to orders to refrain from public ministry. (2 people)
  
• Father Marek Bozek (since laicized by Pope Benedict XVI, and the lay parish board members of St. Stanislaus Kostka Church in St. Louis, Missouri in December 2005 were declared guilty of the ecclesiastical crime of schism by then-Archbishop Raymond Leo Burke. Their excommunication was ratified by the Vatican in May 2008. (Four of the parish board members have since reconciled with the Church.) (7 people, 4 of whom returned to the Church, so 3 people)
  
• Mother of a nine-year old Brazilian rape victim, for obtaining an abortion for her daughter. Also the doctors performing the abortion. (Indeterminable amount of people, but clearly at least 3)

So... 1+2+5+7+2+3+3= at least 23 people excommunicated from the Catholic Church this century, not counting those who returned. Select company indeed.

The only problem is that I'm not sure if any of them WANTED to be excommunicated. There's the conundrum. If I WANT to be excommunicated, and I make it public to the Church, would they just step up their game instead?