"Maybe.
We'll see.
"
I don't think so. This whole line of stuff should be dropped. When a REAL official of the RCC comes out and chides this De Fide group for publicizing this false excommunication, that should be the end of the discussion.
This was never going anywhere, and is nothing but a distraction from the real issues.
Kerry will NOT be excommunicated, and will continue to receive the sacrament at mass.
And never should have been started in the first place.
Dear MineralMan,
"Kerry will NOT be excommunicated, and will continue to receive the sacrament at mass."
He will continue to receive Holy Communion, at least for now.
His excommunication ought not, however, be framed in the future tense. The letter of theologian makes clear that he is currently excommunicated latae sententiae. One might say the theologian is wrong. But the theologian is not positing that the Church ought to take action to excommunicate Mr. Kerry sometime in the near or distant future.
The theologian has stated that those who are Catholic politicans who support a legal right to abortion are already in a state of excommunication. Either the theologian is right, or he is wrong. It may be an unsettled question to many right now, but the answer already exists objectively.
It merely needs to be recognized or clarified.
Although the offense is different, Mr. Kerry, and Mr. Cuomo, and Ms. Collins, and Mr. Pataki, et. al., are all excommunicated in the same manner as a Catholic doctor who has performed an abortion. It is an automatic operation of law as a result of the act itself that causes the excommunication. Neither pope nor bishop nor theologian need make any mention, give any formal notice or recognition that the doctor is now excommunicated.
Similarly with pro-choice Catholic politicians. If the theologian's reasoning is correct, then these all are excommunicated. It requires no formal notice or recognition.
Although that would be nice.
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