[daniel1212]

Though it's true that in a sense, Catholicity is permanent (not even excommunication takes away the permanent "mark" of baptism), it's baptism itself which is recognized as one's entry into the Catholic Church. All of my baptized RCIA students --- baptized in the Name of the Trinity in any church, Lutheran, Church of God in Christ, whatever --- are received by Confirmation, since they are already baptized, and we recognize that. So you can say all the validly baptized are, in that sense, Catholic. Even my husband, who was baptized in the Baptist church. The Catechism would call him certainly, but imperfectly, Catholic. Paragraph # 838 "Those who believe in Christ and have been properly baptized are put in a certain, although imperfect, communion with the Catholic Church." I sometimes find it confusing when one word is used in different senses.

The issue is not that Ted Kennedy Catholics are manifestly considered Catholic in the sense as your husband is, but as formally Catholic, members of your church of such standing as to be given ecclesiastical funerals, under the watchful eye of the Vatican no less. Thereby showing her interpretation of canon law, regardless and contrary to your rendering such to be excommunicated latae sentenciae. Biblical, what we do is the evidence of what we really believe, not mere professions. (Ja. 2:18)

Of course, once again you have been corrected on this before , but continue in your compelled defense of error.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I have never defended the disgraceful, scandalous violations of Canon Law by even the highest-positioned men in the Church.

I noted, promptly, when it happened, Abortion Enthusiast Ted Kennedy’s grand funeral honors at the Cathedral in Boston, which looked and smelled like a canonization, when it should have featured a sermon on the terrible certainty of God’s Judgment and the chanting of the Dies Irae.

Though I have decried Catholics’ failings frequently, perhaps I can leave it to you to do so continuously.