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So Americans are not excommunicated for having an abortion?

2 posted on 08/09/2010 8:38:54 PM PDT by ansel12 (Mitt: "I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush")

Automatic excommunication means nothing to the child molesters. Public humiliation does mean something.

7 posted on 08/10/2010 3:10:47 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)

In 2004, Archbishop [now former or Emeritus] of Atlanta John Francis Donoghue issued an edict that all pro-abortion Catholic polticans were ex-communicated in the Archdiocese of Atlanta. The next Archbishop [a liberal African American by the name of Gregory] overturned this proclamation.

There have been other cases where Bishops/Archbishops/Cardinals have contacted pro-abortion Catholic politicans about this matter -- PRIVATELY.

One such politican was Congressman Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island. He was such an idiot about this that he made it a public discussion and not a private one.

That forced Bishop Tobin of Providence, Rhode Island to respond.

The result is that Rep. Patrick Kennedy is not running for re-election -- he botched the situation that bad.

9 posted on 08/10/2010 8:18:16 AM PDT by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)

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