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Ecclesia and Excommunication
On the Readings for Sunday, September 10, 2017 […]
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Abortion, Cardinal Dolan, and excommunication: A response to Dr. Peters
In the 1980s I taught religion at an all-girls Catholic high school in Chicago. In the four years I was there, sadly two of my students, aged 17, had abortions despite my efforts to talk […]
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It’s not fair, but does he deserve it?
A savvy observer of things Catholic recently contacted me regarding the scorn being directed at Timothy Cdl. Dolan (and other bishops, but mostly Dolan) for not excommunicating New York’s pro-abortion governor Andrew Cuomo, for not […]
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On excommunicating Andrew Cuomo for heresy
Apologies for a long post. I don’t have time to write a short one. Canonist Edward Condon has an essay at First Things wherein he calls for the excommunication of NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo, not on the ground […]
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Why Dr. Rebecca Luckett’s abortion essay is not the “same old same-old”
Most ‘Yes-I’m-Catholic-but’ attempts at public conscience massaging warrant little consideration and usually no follow-up. But Dr. Luckett’s recent USA Today essay could be an exception. […]
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The Bloody 14 and the question of excommunication
The repeated, though for now misguided, calls for excommunication in these cases, and the repeated, but worth-considering, calls for withholding holy Communion in these cases […]