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Matilda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-26-04 03:28 AM
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67. Yes, I think he has. Excommunication really means being but off
from all the sacraments - not only communiion, but marriage, or the
last rites if you were dying, and it has to be official, not just
someone speaking off the cuff in the Vatican.

As the link I posted above said, lay people can only be
excommunicated for assassinating the Pope (!), or for procuring an
abortion - that means either arranging one for somebody, or having
one yourself. It is not an excommunicable sin to say publicly that
you support women's right to choose.

Bishops can and do refuse communion when they object to a stand that
someone has taken, and it's a step from total excommunication, but
not the full thing, as I understand.



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