[silverleaf]

What. The Catholic church is going medieval and claiming jurisdiction over the Kings subjects? Next I suppose they’ll excommunicate troops fighting in wars

[Mrs. Don-o]

It’s not ‘the Catholic Church’ in this case. It’s Bishop Nothingburger — I mean Weisenburger.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Well... if a person commits war crimes he ought to be excommunicated. But lawful border security, like lawful national defense, is not a war crime. In fact, it is a service to the common good and a just, constitutional obligation.

As the Catechism says:

Political authorities, for the sake of the common good for which they are responsible, may make the exercise of the right to immigrate subject to various juridical conditions, especially with regard to the immigrants' duties toward their country of adoption. Immigrants are obliged to respect with gratitude the material and spiritual heritage of the country that receives them, to obey its laws and to assist in carrying civic burdens.

[Mrs. Don-o]

The grounds under which a Catholic can be excommunicated are rather well defined, precisely to protect Catholics from arbitrary acts by out-of-control clerics.

Bp Weisenburger doesn't have even a remotely canonical justification to say what he said.

"Bishop Weisenburger himself resides in a state where three of its Catholic members of Congress are rated 100 percent pro-abortion by Planned Parenthood (Tom O'Halleran, Raul Grijalva, and Ruben Gallego, all Democrats).

If he wants to open up the excommunication bottle, he should pour a couple of tall ones for the pro-abort politicians in his diocese.