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Excommunication is used for people who repeatedly offend the church via some dogmatic means, not for people who commit crimes while staying inside its structure
by phoe-krk 7y ago
Excommunication is used for people who repeatedly offend the church via some dogmatic means, not for people who commit crimes while staying inside its structures.
- viraptor 7y agoWikipedia: "A person may be ferendae sententiae (i.e., upon judicial review) excommunicated if he: ... 4. who breaks a penal law allowing excommunication that was enacted on local level, which the local authority, however, may only do with great caution and for grave offences (for Latin Catholics, can. 1318 CIC)." I would expect molesting children to be grave enough.
- phoe-krk 7y agoIs this rule even used at all?