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To: ninenot; Theodore R.
The letter from Bp Burke, telling certain pols NOT to receive Communion until they publicly recant, IS excommunication.

Not true.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/enpeters/a_denialofeucharist.htm

Excommunication (or interdiction) would entail the denial of all the sacraments, not the denial of only the Eucharist, as Burke has done.

21 posted on 01/24/2004 12:54:32 PM PST by Dajjal
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To: Dajjal
AHA!! I stand corrected.

29 posted on 01/24/2004 5:47:19 PM PST by ninenot (So many cats, so few recipes)
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