Holy excommunicated dissidents, Batman! Curtsy to…
admin December 7th, 2006
Holy excommunicated dissidents, Batman!
Curtsy to Mike over at Waffling Anglican for alerting me to this:
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=48072
Now, here’s my whole Clam-tastic take on this: this was long overdue, but thank God it’s happened!
Don’t get me wrong – I don’t wish for any of the affected people to go burn in Hell or anything. In fact, I hope that they see the error of their ways and become reconciled to the Church, and will add them to my prayer list. Thing is, particularly with Catholics For a Free Choice, they are openly and unapologetically promoting something that is explicitly condemned in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. I don’t know enough about Church law to know whether a Catholic is allowed to personally disagree with, say, the celibacy rule, provided one doesn’t actively work to undercut it. As far as I know, as long as you submit to the Church’s decision, that’s the most important part, but I could be totally wrong.
So in short, I’m not dancing on anyone’s excommunication order, but I’m certainly not shedding tears that Bishop Bruskewitz has rained on Call To Action’s/Catholics For a Free Choice’s/whoever else’s parade. In fact, I may send Bishop Bruskewitz and Cardinal Re each flowers. And chocolates. And a pony. 
Update: I mentioned this to a co-worker of mine (who spent 12 years in Catholic schools), and she was disgusted. Her exact words were “We’re going backwards!” Of course, she takes the line that if priests could only marry, maybe they wouldn’t molest boys. So many prayers, so little time…
