Maybe... quite possibly... she needs that severe blow.
The U.S. church needs to fix this. You can’t have public sinners being permitted to receive Communion in one diocese, but being barred into another. That’s the kind of seed from which schism grows.
St. John Fisher, pray for us.
St. Thomas More, pray for us.
[And, since today is the feast day of St. John Vianney]
Holy Cure of Ars, pray for our priests.
There is something like self-excommunication, she did excommunicate herself by her actions. What about that?
In the modern RC Church as I have read it there remains only so called major excommunication:
"Excommunication, especially a jure, is either latæ or ferendæ sententiæ. The first is incurred as soon as the offence is committed and by reason of the offence itself (eo ipso) without intervention of any ecclesiastical judge; it is recognized in the terms used by the legislator, for instance: "the culprit will be excommunicated at once, by the fact itself [statim, ipso facto]". The second is indeed foreseen by the law as a penalty, but is inflicted on the culprit only by a judicial sentence; in other words, the delinquent is rather threatened than visited with the penalty, and incurs it only when the judge has summoned him before his tribunal, declared him guilty, and punished him according to the terms of the law. It is recognized when the law contains these or similar words: "under pain of excommunication"; "the culprit will be excommunicated".
Therefore it seems that all who or propagate abortion, participate in it etc are excommunicating themselves by their actions. N. Pelosi is already outside of the Catholic Church by her own actions.
The "severe blow" that hasn't yet occurred ought to in order to prevent the most "severe blow" possible.
Permissiveness is not love. Permissiveness is slothful hatred.
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