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To: marshmallow
He is acting like a madman, daring his local Bishop to essentially excommunicate him. Very unlike a statesman or a good politician or a national leader. He is an embarrassment to Canada.
7 posted on 05/29/2003 2:44:37 PM PDT by NetValue (Militant Islam first swarms the states it will later dominate.)
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To: NetValue
The Catholic Church usually reserves excommunication for recalcatrant bishops and authority figures, not for pew-warming Catholics.

It's RARELY done. I think the last time I heard of someone getting excommunicated in the RCC, it was in reference to a bishop in Africa who "married" a woman in a ceremony performed by Rev. Moon. He repented and the pope took him back.
22 posted on 05/29/2003 3:07:21 PM PDT by Tamar1973 ("He who is compassionate to the cruel, ends up being cruel to the compassionate." Chazal,Jewish sage)
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