Cardinal keeps excommunication threat hanging over abortion TDs.

[Warren Stupidity]

The Catholic Church has left the threat of excommunication hanging over the heads of Catholic members of the Dail who vote for the abortion legislation in its current format.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/cardinal-keeps-excommunication-threat-hanging-over-abortion-tds-29242992.html

[rug]

1. An idle threat.

He's referring to excommunication latae sententae which dosn't apply. And he has neither the grounds nor the balls to try for excommunication ferendae sententiae.

[Warren Stupidity]

6. Split that hair.

[rug]

7. Prceision is the best antidote for demagoguery.

[Warren Stupidity]

8. You made me laugh out loud.

7. Prceision is the best antidote for demagoguery.

[rug]

9. Hah!

[hrmjustin]

2. It would be a mistake if the Bishops of Ireland did that.

[skepticscott]

3. And as we all know

Catholic bishops never make mistakes...

[hrmjustin]

4. No of couse not.

[edhopper]

5. At least the stay out of politics

the same as here.

[Dawson Leery]

10. Catholic Bishops, the henchmen of the great whore

have no problem with slavery (the Magdaline laundries), yet they are hellbent of protecting zygotes at all costs.

[rug]

11. The great whore?

Put down those Chick tracts.

[TeamPooka]

14. Welcome to DU. A zygote is the cell formed by the union of two gametes, especially a fertilized ovum

the thread is about the church being against abortion so that would be why the poster mentioned zygote protection in the context he used.

[backscatter712]

15. Yep! The RCC gets all bent out of shape over zygotes and gay-marriage...

but they've been fine with Magdaline Laundries, and went to exceptional amounts of trouble (all the way to the top - why do you think Maladict resigned?) to cover up widespread child molestation by their priests.

And they claim to be so moral...

[TeamPooka]

17. none of the science really matters to me as I belive in a woman's right to choose what

she does with her body regardless of what her religion or government dictates.
The real question I keep coming back to and you keep straw manning away from almost in an attempt to hijack the thread is what about the excommunication policy of the church over abortion?
You for it or against it?
I'm against it.

[rug]

18. "none of the science really matters to me as I belive . . . ."

If that's your premise, it really doesn't matter what follows.

[trotsky]

19. Hi George!

Welcome back!

[No Vested Interest]

20. That's what I thought, too

Guess he's gone again.

[skepticscott]

22. Wow..messages CAN be removed

Funny that "atheist arseholes" is still up...maybe the hosts don't mind it as much as we think.

[hrmjustin]

23. Yes it is gone. He was asked to remove it as a condition to coming back.

[okasha]

24. And those Watchtowers.

nt

[dimbear]

12. We will likely never know for certain whether Halley's Comet was excommunicated. However,

it is well documented historical fact that locusts, grasshoppers, caterpillars, ants, termites, turtledoves, worms, and leeches have been.

Hitler: still cool.

[meow2u3]

21. The cardinal is clearly abusing his authority

AFAIK, excommunication is appropriate when one directly participates in an abortion. Last I checked, merely voting to legalize abortion in extraordinary cases is not sufficient grounds for excommunication, and by no means directly participating in one. The cardinal is way out of line. He has no right to abuse his authority by threatening excommunication just to keep Catholic lawmakers in line.

He sounds like some of the cardinals on this side of the pond, using doctrine as a weapon instead of a teaching tool.