geoff@hinode.east.sun.com (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) (06/05/90)
A brief question for the net.catholics and others, after reading the coverage of the French anti-semitic outrages and the actions of Le Pen's National Front: Those subhumans (IMHO) all claim to be good Catholics, by most accounts. Should the Pope announce that such acts of desecration are grounds for instant and automatic excommunication? Geoff (atheist, but recognizing the political power of Catholicism in many parts of the world) Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM) <<<< PC-NFS (*not* PC/NFS)is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems >>>> "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of in your philosophy" - and every one of them requires an IP address...
mmh@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Matthew Huntbach) (06/07/90)
In article <Jun.5.00.15.53.1990.17265@athos.rutgers.edu> geoff@hinode.east.sun.com (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) writes: >A brief question for the net.catholics and others, after reading >the coverage of the French anti-semitic outrages and the actions >of Le Pen's National Front: Those subhumans (IMHO) all claim to >be good Catholics, by most accounts. Should the Pope announce that >such acts of desecration are grounds for instant and automatic >excommunication? > Certainly, such acts are Mortal Sins, those engaging in them ARE therefore excommunicated until they have made a true confession (which involves genuinely repenting for what has been done). I understand that Le Pen and many of his followers are supporters of the schismatic Archbishop Lefebvre, and have therefore broken from Rome already. Matthew Huntbach