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To: Kuksool
The Catholic Church should consider ex-communicating the lesbian couple.

Canon 915 states: “Those who are excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others who obstinately persist in manifest [i.e., public]grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.”

Lesbian couples are indeed those "who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin." Especially when they manifest [make public and therefore cause public scandal] their own grave sin by publicly pronouncing their lesbian relationship.

39 posted on 08/30/2003 11:23:26 AM PDT by Polycarp ("If God does not exist, everything is permitted" - Father Felix Lubyxsynsky)
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To: Polycarp
The "mothers" will not be attending the school, however.

If the little girl qualifies for admission otherwise, and of course it is possible that she does not--but if she does, I have to wonder what SHE has done to be denied your church's educational opportunities.

I'm NOT saying the state should force them to admit her. I just think it's a terrible thing for any church to condemn a child for having bad parents, when they could give her a chance to overcome that.

Smacks of the concept of the unwanted bastard throw-away child.
44 posted on 08/30/2003 12:25:54 PM PDT by ChemistCat (Focused, Relentless Charity Beats Random Acts of Kindness.)
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