Has the Catholic Church ever excommunicated a politician? Do they ever refuse someone like Dingell holy communion? How about rebuking someone like that for their antiCatholic like positions? Is there anything the Catholic Church might find questionable or objectionable?
Henry VIII
A king got excommunicated and begged the pope to reinstate him. I can't remember his name right now, but he did his penance and was reinstated.
So, it has been done before. Elizabeth I was excommunicated.
The reason for excommunication is for the good of the soul of the person declared but it only works if the person is willing to repent.
In these days especially, people are so far gone that it is doubtful that it would have any effect on the declared.
Many cannot be moved to repentance and therein lies the difficulty.
Hate to say it, though he didn’t claim to be Catholic or even Christian, Hitler had been baptized as a baby in Austria....and was never (formally) excommunicated by Rome.
As a lifelong Catholic I am finding this “new” Catholic church and Pope disgusting!
Makes me wonder why I’m Catholic!
They do NOTHING to in your face liberals who flaunt their extremism.
How far we’ve fallen!!!
The church is full of libs who sit in the highest seats of power! They are liberal politicians who happen to wear a collar! They disgust me!!
Tell me how we got this Pope again!!
“Is there anything the Catholic Church might find questionable or objectionable?”
Yes. Nick Sandmann standing his ground.
If you're talking about the Vatican, yes, the core group around Burgie find Catholic Doctrine and Dogma objectionable.
Yes they once did that back in the Middle Ages when they had balls and principles.