Catholic and Enjoying It!
…must be constantly bombarded with continual demands from the Excommunication-Happy in the laity. Seems like hardly a day passes when some self-appointed bishop in a combox doesn’t demand that this or that public figure be excommunicated, which is sort of like somebody with Boy Scout training in first aid running around prescribing limb amputations for cuts, scrapes and scratches.
People don’t seem to realize how serious excommunication is and what a dreadful and desperate expedient it is. Ed Peters does. So, in the immortal words of Tom Kreitzberg, “Sometimes I think Ed Peters is just using his knowledge to tell us things we don’t already know.”
Excommunication-Happy laity are urged to consult Peters’ considerable expertise by bookmarking the link provided and seriously consulting it before giving in to the next impulse to run around demanding that large portions of the Church be kicked out.
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