[Salvation]

Another Catholic bound for excommunication:

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CCC Search Result - Paragraph # 2271  (618 bytes )  preview document matches 1 Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, URL: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2271.htm

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CCC Search Result - Paragraph # 2272  (580 bytes )  preview document matches 2 Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. "A URL: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2272.htm

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CCC Search Result - Paragraph # 2322  (290 bytes )  preview document matches 2 From its conception, the child has the right to life. Direct abortion, that is, abortion willed as an end or as a means, is a "criminal" practice (GS 27 § 3), URL: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2322.htm

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4:	CCC Search Result - Paragraph # 2274  (554 bytes )  preview document matches gravely opposed to the moral law when this is done with the thought of possibly inducing an abortion, depending upon the results: a diagnosis must not be the equivalent URL: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2274.htm

[mimaw]

If one were excommunicated would it be done publicly or privately? Wouldn't it be instructive to the flock to see the results of purposeful disobedience of the tenets of the Church?

[mimaw]

If one were excommunicated would it be done publicly or privately? Wouldn't it be instructive to the flock to see the results of purposeful disobedience of the tenets of the Church?

[mimaw]

If one were excommunicated would it be done publicly or privately? Wouldn't it be instructive to the flock to see the results of purposeful disobedience of the tenets of the Church?

[topher]

From Archbishop Charles J. Chaput new book Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life (page 225):

The recurrent debates over denying Catholic politicians Communion are usually marked by ignorance about the church and disregard for the real nature of the Eucharist. Denying anyone Communion is a grave matter. It can never be ruled out as a course of action, but it should be reserved for serious cases of public scandal where it can actually make a difference.

I believe that public scandal is definitely what is in Matthew 18:4-7 where Jesus states that corruputing innocent children is so serious one should put a millstone about their neck and be thrown into the sea rather than do that.

Also, what Archbishop Chaput states is that denying the politicians will make a difference, i.e., might make them change their position on issues that are public scandal...

Just something I just ran across, and I felt that the combination of Matthew 18:4-7 and what Archbishop Chaput states is a better references.

Finally, I would add that the governor probably supports Euthanasia, homosexuality activities, homosexual unions, as well as abortion -- adding to the list of things that are public scandal...