Posted on 10/18/2004 9:13:08 AM PDT by kerrywearsbotox
He will no doubt be excommunicated by the Catholic Church.
Kerresy?
Paragraphs are our friends. You need to reformat this or nobody's going to read it.
Too bad it won't be before 11/2.
Paragraphs please!
We won't read it without them.
If Kerry is excommunicated before Nov. 2 he will lose most of the ~48% of the Catholic vote he currently has, plus a few others.
So when is the thermal treatment scheduled?
I sent in my certified complaint, and I agree that the more they get, the harder it will be for them to shrug this off.
The whole atmosphere is changing among the Catholic bishops. Last year Archbishop O'Malley would have been under a lot of pressure from his fellow bishops as well as the liberal media to dismiss the case.
This year the bishops aren't so certain where the consensus is. The younger conservative bishops are gaining influence. If O'Malley dismisses the case he'll please the Boston Globe and the liberal establishment, which is pretty big in Massachusetts, but he might kill his future prospects as a leader in the Church in America. So he needs to be more cautious about letting kerry off the hook.
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Not a chance in the world that they will act before election day. So this won't have much impact on the race, but it may have a great deal of impact on the future ability of heretic Catholic politicians to run and hide from the consequences of their sins.
No, he's not going to be excommunicated, and neither will the other politicians named in the document. It's not going to happen.
You may wish that it would happen, but that will not make it so.
The Pope and the Church, like all political bodies, make decisions based on current needs. Indeed, if they did excommunicate these people, the impact on the RCC would be enormous.
As you know, many Catholics simply ignore the Church's ban on abortion and birth control. They do this, because the Church has tacitly allowed them to. Local priests are the ones who really make these decisions for their parishioners.
Excommunication is a last resort measure, and will not be used in this case.
Are you sure? The Kerry camp's response would be something along the lines of: "This is just another right-wing smear campaign orchestrated by Karl Rove who is manipulating radical fundamentalist Bishops who took time out from their busy schedule of molesting young boys to write this scurrilous document...and we question the timing of this action."
The "Catholic vote" is the backbone of the abortion license in this country.
It sustains the twelve Catholic senators who are blocking the appointment of pro-life Federal judges.
Any attempt by the Church to condemn Kerry will help him, not hurt him.
Red
"Any attempt by the Church to condemn Kerry will help him, not hurt him."
Precisely. We're pretty protective about our elections being influenced by outsiders, and the RCC, as a world power, is definitely an outsider.
But, it won't come to that, since O'Malley is going to do no such thing as state that Kerry, Kennedy, or any other others are excommunicates. It ain't gonna happen.
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