AmericanPapist Comments
What happens if, say, a bishop in a state a senator or congressman is from denies him communion for voting for FOCA but the Bishop of the diocese where he goes to Mass in DC/MD/VA doesn't follow his hometown bishop's requests?
I doubt that any one American Bishop can tell another what to do in his own diocese, but at the same time if politicians are able to play off bishops like kids asking Dad when Mom says no there's going to be a lot of egg on episcopal faces in the coming months.
Let's say the Church says they are not automatically excommunicated. I think it would then be best to formally declare them excommunicated.
Excommunicate them all! Let God sort out the rest!
I have a sneaking suspicion that as President, Obama will make no effort to enact FOCA and will encourage Dem. leaders in Congress not to bring it to a vote.
Face it; he's got the pro-abortion voters locked up. By pushing FOCA he runs a real risk of reinvigorating the "values conservatives" for the 2010 off-year elections.
True, "forgetting" the FOCA pledge may tick off some of the most virulent pro-aborts, but where are they gonna go?
We'll see.
works for me, brassband.
BB might have something. His Cabinet looks like the Clinton Alumni Assn., with a dash of Friends of Robert Rubin on the economic front. Basically nice safe Dems- not much safer than Bill Richardson, second or third major pol to endorse him, at Commerce. Things too jittery. FOCA may be #47532 on list of priorities. The bishops are too jumpy. Would be too embarrassing to see one carted off to jail while blocking the main entrance to a Catholic medical center. Meaning no abortions no nothing if FOCA is law. But we shall see.
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