You Mean Hitler Wasn?t A Priest?

National Review Online ^ | Dave Shiflett

[headsonpikes]

Much in the manner in which you have 'ex-communicated' capital letters from your witless prose, I gather.

[nina0113]

The catholic church has excommunicated people all the time that weren't part of the church.

Excommunication is a formal declaration that someone is NO LONGER a part of the Church.

You can't get kicked OUT if you were never IN.

[Romestamo]

Don't forget to put Karl Barth and others involved in the Barmen Declaration up there with Bonhoeffer.

[Askel5]

I suspect your impressions of the Catholic Church may be somewhat in error.

[Askel5]

You can't excommunicate someone who's already obtained for themselves a latae sententiae excommunication.

For example, there is no point in excommunicating "Catholics for Choice" or whatever group it is that goes around calling themselves Catholic as they seek to encourage abortion.

Anyone who procures or helps another to procure an abortion (by paving the way of ideological pressure and coercion), obtains a latae sententiae excommunication.

It's like beating a dead horse.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

You should really try and know what you are talking about before you post.

That's not part of Michele's, aka VLH, modus operandi. "Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise." Thomas Gray

[BenR2]

Much in the manner in which you have 'ex-communicated' capital letters from your witless prose, I gather.

That's it: witless, like your all-lower-case nick.

(Except that I LOVE your nick.)

[BenR2]

Pope Sixtus V's Decree against Queen Elizabeth

Wait a minute....

Shouldn't it be Pope Fourthus IV, Pope Fifthus V, and Pope Sixtus VI? (Let's conjugate these names properly.)

Can anyone tell I've been up all night?

[nightdriver]

"Adolf Hitler was not a Christian after all."

Well DUH!! Whoever said he was lives either lives in another world or is an anti-christian liberal. Hitler didn't learn those occult practices in any christian church and his silly swastika was stolen from the hindus, not anything christian.

[ThJ1800]

A shocking story has been revealed: Adolf Hitler was not a Christian after all.

This is shocking? and this is news? Hell, I knew this is junior high.

[bray]

My worst, was a paper I turned into 2 classes w/permission on the theft of Poland at Yalta by Stalin. Got an A+ from my english prof and a B from my Stalinist Econ prof. She said she graded me down for the grammer???? I never bothered to tell her that my English prof thought the grammer was excellent and he raised his eyebrow when I told him. Stalin was always good at abuse of power and it is alive and well in our Ivy Halls.

Pray for GW and the Truth

[Askel5]

The point remains that the Roman institution does excommunicate people whom one would assume they didn't need to. Except Hitler.

For the simple reason that these sorts either continue to proclaim themselves Catholic or are in the process of leading others astray under what they are professing is "Catholic" teaching.

I fail to see how Hitler met that test. He strikes me as a neo-pagan.

First and Second Things

[Petronski]

All offences or public insults committed within Italian territory against the person of the Supreme Pontiff, whether by means of speeches, acts, or writings, shall be punished in the same manner as offences and insults against the person of the King.

And how are offences or public insults committed against the King punished in Italy? They're not. There is no King of Italy. So what is your point about how this affects the world today?