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To: BibChr
Why is she still an RCC? What hasn't she been excommunicated?

Good questions? As to the first, she has an agenda to destroy the traditional Church and Her teachings. The latter; I don't know. I can't, for the life of me, understand why she hasn't been excommunicated. All I can say is it has to be by her Bishop. If he's a "progressive" (modernist, liberal), and I could use other expletives (deletives), then he simply won't excommunicate her and she's safe. Maybe we can move Bishop Bruskowitz(sp?) to her diocese. He has never been afraid of excommunicating any one individual or group that perversely violates the faith.

95 posted on 05/06/2002 1:39:57 PM PDT by ThomasMore
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To: ThomasMore
re: excommunication

That's a point which should be raised at the bishops' conference. It's an extraordinary penalty generally and historically reserved for the most severe expressions of evil (sacrilege, abortion, sorcery,etc.). The bishop can inform the individual personally and can instruct their pastor as well that they should refrain from Holy Communion as long as they persist in their opposition to church teaching. If they are a practicing homosexual or lesbian, they are not in good standing and this applies anyway. And quite obviously this applies to any priest who is also a practicing homosexual. There's a good case to be made that someone with strong homosexual tendencies just simply could not be entrusted with administering sacraments. A practicing lesbian is not a Catholic in good standing. That's just common sense. She's a Catholic in name only (like Ted Kennedy).

98 posted on 05/06/2002 1:49:00 PM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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