Posted on 09/23/2013 10:05:35 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
So, just when is the last time the Pelosi attended Mass?
It’s not just Pelosi. If we had a good and moral electorate she would not even hold public office.
HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s about time!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Would the Pope consider Cardinal Burke’s comment and “obsession”?
I'm surprised the level of sheer vileness of most liberals these days does not cause them to burst into flames just walking down the street.
We must have the moral clarity to act. You’d not think twice about putting down a rabid dog, horror-bent terrorist or child killer - why the timidity to call a spade a spade?
“Let’s kill babies” cannot be Catholic, it certainly isn’t Christian.
Burke is correct and the Pope knows already before Burke made this public. At last!!!
>We must have the moral clarity to act.<
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The act of excommunication is not mine to exercise — it is up to the Church to make that decision.
I do not have that power and I cannot even request the excommunication of a person who, in my opinion, deserves to be excommunicated. The Church is not a democracy and I am glad it isn’t.
Can you just imagine a long line of people standing in front of the bishop’s office, each one having a list of personal enemies who they would like to see excommunicated? :)
My understanding of Catholic doctrine is that she’s already excommunicated herself by her actions. Now it is up to the Catholic Church to make it official.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/latest/19039922/vic-priest-excommunicated-over-teaching/
Guess I'd better post that to the forum so more people can see it and take heart.
I’ve never heard of a layperson being excommunicated because he/she was pro-choice. Admittedly, I don’t know much on the subject of excommunication. But if that included everyone that supported abortion in any way, shape, or form, that would include a whole lotta Catholics, even some otherwise devout ones. Even the birth control pill can cause an early abortion by preventing implantation, if the woman still ovulates (which can happen just from missing a pill or two).
My grandmother was very devout, but she believed a woman should be able to have an very early abortion in the case of rape. I never asked her how she thought this could work (would a rape victim have to go through a whole trial before she could have an abortion? How could she have an early abortion then? The whole “legal in the case of rape and incest” doesn’t really work logistically).
"procuring an abortion" has the canonical penalty of automatic excommunication. There's no announcement or declaration, the person is simply automatically excommunicated. They should go to Confession, can be reconciled to the Church again, but sometimes it takes the Bishop to lift the excommunication.
More generally, excommunication happens when the person has DONE something outrageous AND PUBLIC, has caused scandal because of prominence and publicity, has been officially warned and has refused to repent.
That would be scandalous priests, bishops, and public people like politicians. The politicians are actually accomplices --- they vote funds for abortion, for example, it's just like a mafia don paying a hit-man.
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