Call to Action group appeals excommunication

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Hopefully those turned over to Satan will have their fleshly passions destroyed so that they will return in humility and have their spirits saved on the day of the Lord Jesus Christ. :gopray:
 
Brendan said:
He issued an excommunication on anyone who is a member of these organizations and did not renounce their membership and the offending principles of the organization in question.

Anyone who did not was excommuncated by their own actions.

In addition, anyone who joins these groups will also excommunicate themselves.

Until they repent of their errors, they may not present themselves for any Sacrament, nor may any minister in the world knowingly offer them the Sacraments.
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if this is the case it seems so simple. He makes it clear how the Church feels on their points and he fulfills his role as sheperd.
 
I wonder what the Vatican will do about priests who belong to this group. Does excommunication cross all diocesan lines?
 
mommyof4 said:
Check this out:
siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2007/02/22/news/nebraska/5c2f6d51d97497178625728a00072b20.txt

Vatican won’t consider excommunication appeal

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – Call to Action-Nebraska will be consulting canon lawyers about how to press its appeal of an excommunication order issued by Lincoln’s bishop in 1996.

The Signatura – a sort of supreme court for the Roman Catholic Church – has refused to hear the group’s appeal of Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz’s blanket excommunication, which included members of the group, several Masonic organizations and abortion-rights groups Planned Parenthood and Catholics for a Free Choice.

Bruskewitz said the groups contradict and imperil Catholic faith.

The excommunication order was put on hold while Call to Action members appealed.
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Funny how must of these groups dont even believe in excommunication, let alone understand it, but when the Bishop acts within his God-given power in following the teachings of the Church regarding these matters they demand appeals and debates of all sorts.

Sorry, but the Catholic Church does not work like the American legal system 👍
 
Caesar said:
Funny how most of these groups dont even believe in excommunication, let alone understand it, but when the Bishop acts within his God-given power in following the teachings of the Church regarding these matters they demand appeals and debates of all sorts.

Sorry, but the Catholic Church does not work like the American legal system 👍
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You read my mind!
 
Caesar said:
Funny how must of these groups dont even believe in excommunication, let alone understand it, but when the Bishop acts within his God-given power in following the teachings of the Church regarding these matters they demand appeals and debates of all sorts.

Sorry, but the Catholic Church does not work like the American legal system 👍
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Actually, in some respects, it does act like the American legal system. All Catholics have certain rights under Canon Law, and one of them is the right to appeal an order of excommunication.

Both excommunications and appeals therefrom are rare. The most recent one I recall was an appeal by several individuals in Hawaii from an excommunication; I do not recall the results. It isn’t that in this case they “demand” an appeal; it is that they have a right to an appeal. However, it appears in the current case that they have exercised that right and received an answer they are not satisfied with; the comments about consulting Canon lawyers sounds as if they do not understand the appeal process, or that it has been exhausted.

And considering they do not understand other critical items of Catholic faith and morality, that should come as no surprise…
 
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