Can Gov. Cuomo be excommunicated due to his abortion advocacy? I've read it said that his actions are not excommunicable under canon law. Let's grant that for the sake of argument. However, I've also read that popes can and do rewrite canon law:
Therefore, assuming that his actions are not excommunicable under current canon law, the pope can remove that impediment by revising canon law to make such actions excommunicable. Therefore, it's a lame excuse to hide behind canon law.
Even if the idea of retroactive punishment is objectionable, officeholder like Cuomo could be given a chance to recant their prior actions. If they refuse, then they'd be excommunicated for their present violation of canon law.
Assuming, however, that actions like his can't be grounds for excommunication, then that's just one more reason not to be Catholic. What's the moral advantage of Roman Catholicism if its hands are tied so that it can't exercise church discipline when necessary?
If the RCC can't even get around to dealing with such low-hanging fruit, and excommunicating the most visible pro-abortion politicians in the country, what is the point of having a top-down, authoritarian hierarchy?
ReplyDeleteIn real churches, this would constitute a shameful, scandalous breach of basic duty.
Probably because the *ideal * of the RC apologists simply doesn't exist in the real world. The RadTrads want change, but it seems to me the direction is resolutely full speed down the liberal highway.
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