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To: vladimir998; Campion; ConservativeMind; Alex Murphy; Gamecock
According to the Catholic Church, Hitler's sinful life and paganism cut his relationship with God and His Church. Period.

Nope. Campion told us that Hitler's baptism into the RCC made him a Catholic even if he was excommunicated.

Time to get the story straight.

101 posted on 03/15/2008 12:48:17 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
He's not a Catholic after he goes to hell.

Canon law says that one becomes a non-Catholic by formally defecting, that is, publicly renouncing the Catholic faith and/or embracing another.

Arguably, Hitler did that at least once, when he called himself a "pure heathen".

103 posted on 03/15/2008 12:51:34 PM PDT by Campion
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

You wrote:

“Nope. Campion told us that Hitler’s baptism into the RCC made him a Catholic even if he was excommunicated.”

I have no idea what you mean and don’t know what Campion said. I do know that what I said was correct. I also know that - if you are accurately relating Campion’s words - we are not contradicting one another. Hitler was a baptized Catholic. As such he was subject to canon law. He still had no relationship to the Church for he received no sacraments, was under excommunication and persecuted the Church’s members.

“Time to get the story straight.”

My story always is straight. Time for you to learn the facts. The real problem is that you don’t know what excommunication is, how it works, what it means, nor do you know the facts of Hitler’s persecution of the Church.


168 posted on 03/15/2008 2:29:38 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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