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To: boatbums
"they HAVE been on the inside and know quite well what gets said and done out of the view of the nosy neighbors."

Fortunately, your perceptions do not create reality. Next time you are in try turning the lights on and investigating. What you so often describe is completely unrecognizable to those of us who know whats in there. The demand for deference simply because you claim to have been Catholic is negated by the displayed ignorance.

Although it has been addressed many times in these threads apparently the light has not come on for those who seemingly do not want to see. The fact is that neither you nor I nor any poster on Free Republic, Catholic or otherwise, knows what the Church has said or done behind closed doors with respect to these politicians. People, including public figures, excommunicate themselves. ipso facto, the moment they knowingly and willingly commit certain acts. Acknowledging this in a public statement is rare. Attempting to enforce excommunication in the curse of a Mass would be disruptive and would undermine the solemnity of the occasion.

Excommunication is not some public spectacle performed as a warning to the potentially wayward, to satisfy the blood lust of an angry crowd and certainly not to prove the piety of the Church to the nonbelievers. Neither should it be confused with Penitential exclusion. It is first and foremost medicinal rather than vindictive, meaning its it is intended to correct rather than punish.

Excommunication is not necessarily permanent and excommunicated person does not cease to be Christian nor does excommunication presume to affect anyone's relationship with God or their Salvation.

Pelosi, Cuomo, et al share the same excommunicated status as you. Had you actually known and understood Church teachings I suspect you would still be a practicing Catholic.

Peace be with you

61 posted on 07/08/2012 10:43:41 AM PDT by Natural Law (Jesus did not leave us a Bible, He left us a Church.)
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To: Natural Law
Pelosi, Cuomo, et al share the same excommunicated status as you. Had you actually known and understood Church teachings I suspect you would still be a practicing Catholic.

Thank God I do not share their liberal, abortion favoring, homosexual glorifying, America shattering tenets! The difference is I do NOT consider myself a Roman Catholic yet they STILL do. I am still a Christian while the status of their souls is questionable. HUGE difference!

66 posted on 07/08/2012 1:50:20 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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