[SteveMcKing]

You cannot honestly think the Vatican is capable of tracking down every offender worldwide and issuing decrees of official excommunication.

It would take many letters, a good volume of office supplies, and a couple hours a week from every priest.

A very high percent of offenders could be given the chance to recant, or else suffer some degree of shame and humiliation for quarreling with their own chosen faith.

[Scotswife]

“It would take many letters, a good volume of office supplies, and a couple hours a week from every priest. “

Really?
How did you come up with those figures?

The teaching is already there - it’s been there for a long time and catholics who don’t abide by it will eventually answer for it in the end.

I’m wondering why a non-catholic is so caught up in trying to tell the Church how to handle these matters.