John Kerry and the Catholic Church

[migrendel]

The point of disagreement here is that not everyone feels that it is murder. I believe if that was an acknowledged consensus, abortion would be illegal.

[Brambila]

Migrendel, it doesn't matter what the secular population believes. This a CATHOLIC issue, not SECULAR. Kerry claims to be CATHOLIC, wants to recieve communion in a CATHOLIC church, and therefore it is a CATHOLIC issue. Further, it is a CATHOLIC believe that you MUST accept that abortion is the killing of an innocent human being and is SERIOUSLY disordered, hence, anyone who supports it's usage IS disordered.

Kerry is EXCOMMUNICATED. He has NO rights to recieve communion or any other sacrament other than reconcliliation.

[TeePee4Prez]

I'm a Catholic as well and I'm only against partial-birth abortion.  Even then I favor it for life, health, incest, rape, mother's life at stake.  Me and many Catholics should be excommunicated before John Kerry.  I mean the guy is better than 90% of them because he regularly attends Mass when I say I'm going but head to the mall instead  

[Brambila]

John Kerry doesn't regularly attend mass. Regularly attending mass in Catholicism is going every week- if you miss one week without a good reason, you're in mortal sin.

And actually, all of you are excommunicated, technically. John Kerry wasn't formally excommunicated, he was automatically excommunicated. Kind of like Hitler.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The whole excommunication thing is evil

[Brambila]

Orthodox Jews had and still have it.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Orthodox Jews had and still have it.

SO?

[dunn]

Orthodox Jews had and still have it.

Only the extreme

[Brambila]

There's absolutely nothing wrong with excommunication. I don't know why you'd make such unfounded statements that it's evil. It's equivilent to saying "the papacy is evil".

Hello? We've had these things going on since the time of Christ. Christ obviously wasn't evi..