Austrian Bishop Laun Says Mall Owner Excommunicated

[bones_IV]

AMEN!

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[WanderAimlessly]

We need more bishops like this. Time to lay the smackdown on the Politicians too

 

[bones_IV]

We need more bishops like this. Time to lay the smackdown on the Politicians too

I know.

 

[tee_eff_em]

But:

Austrian “excommunication” reports are a-muddle

News reports that Salzburg (Austria) auxiliary bishop Andreas Laun has excommunicated one Richard Lugner for allowing an abortion clinic to open in one of his shopping malls, are a mess. No wonder Vienna’s Christoph Cdl. Schoenborn is keeping his distance.

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Finally, as I’ve said many times, canon law imposes excommunication only for a very narrow range of actions; renting space to an abortion clinic isn’t among them. Maybe it ought to be, and maybe there’s some other way to visit penal consequences on what is obviously an objectively gravely immoral action; but as of now, even if the right diocesan officers were citing the most relevant canons, there is no excommunication in canon law for the act described.