Congressman Patrick Kennedy took the letter public and then became an 'ex-congressman' because of the public furor over the congressman's stance.
I thought it somewhat ironic to see Pelosi making the sign of the cross while standing in front of RGB’s casket.
Ooops - make that RBG.
Didn’t know demons could maintain good standing in the Church. /s
John wrote that some people leaving demonstrates that they never belonged.
But Paul also wrote of those who sneak in to spy out our liberty, who try to draw us to follow them rather than repent. These don’t leave. They fester.
In Revelation we see Christ address such a person as she was teaching deep things of Satan. He had given her time to repent but that time of Revelation that time was by then gone. What would this be except her being turned over to a reprobate mind?
I’m not saying Nancy Pelosi has run out her time to repent — though she does actively support homosexuals in society ... a fruit that can be judged, one that does not come from good trees — because while everyone who has been turned over to a reprobate mind will rabidly supports homosexuality in society the reverse need not follow. Rather, she seems simply unrepentant at this time. She may not doesn’t escape though, even if not reprobate, just as the “children” of the Jezebel in Thyatira did not escape.
She needs to repent. Putting it off isn’t a good idea. Not for her or for anyone.
These people are excommunicated no matter what certain bishops might say. There are some bishops that have come awfully close to excommunicating themselves, too. I don’t know what their standing is within the Church or if they are within the Church at all once they are at least partially apostate due to declaring certain dogmas to be wrong or not applicable to them. What I am sure of is that they may not receive the Body and Blood and sin grievously if they do.
They just use religion and christianity for mere social acceptability & politics to appeal to get voters.
Is the Pope Cath......oh never mind.
Nice that she did it to herself, but imagine the powerful message if the Pope came out and announced it.
Why doesn’t the Catholic religion make it official and do it instead of just safely saying that they did it to themselves.
It makes them look weak and like they are afraid to take a stand.
To such people this story might be interesting in an anthropological way, but not relevant to how the vote.
Canons 751, 1364, and 1398 come to mind. She’s struck out
“Any politician who says abortion is okay has excommunicated themselves...”
...and in doing so it would ave been better for them that they place the proverbial millstone around their own necks and cast themselves into the sea.
