I thought those multiple marriages also disqualified him for communion, no?
“I thought those multiple marriages also disqualified him for communion, no?”
Yes... The first one was annulled, so he was ok. But after the blatant, unrepentant public cheating and the messy divorce, he is not allowed communion.
Speaking on this topic in more general terms... Frankly, when there was talk floating of Kerry being excommunicated for supporting abortion a lot of people saw it as the Catholic Church trying to meddle in a US election. This counters that, and goes to prove that the Church is getting serious about ejecting supposed Catholics who go out of their way to violate Christian principles.
I can think of no better issue for the Church to draw a line in the sand on than abortion, and I’m not even a Catholic. It’s true that I loathe Rudy, but I’ll go ahead and say now that I think anyone who supports abortion has no business calling themselves a Christian. My many, many - esxhaustingly many - biology classes strengthened my abhorrance for the practice.
A church has a right to enforce its doctrine, so long as in that enforcement no other rights are violated. And by that I mean, compare Catholics CONSIDERING excommunicating abortionists and Muslims ACTUALLY killing women who show some skin in public.
We’re hearing a lot less about sexual predation, and if abortion is the next step in cleaning the house I’d say this new pope is doing things exactly right.