Hello all,
It may be that the pollers who voted that both Catholics and Protestants suffer from Church punishments (26.67% of those polled) were the correct ones. What do you think of what I have found in the New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia.
What do you think?
IV. WHO CAN BE EXCOMMUNICATED?
Since excommunication is the forfeiture of the spiritual privileges of ecclesiastical society, all those, but those only, can be excommunicated who, by any right whatsoever, belong to this society. Consequently excommunication can be inflicted only on baptized and living persons. Although the Church recites against the
devil exorcisms in which the word
anathema occurs, he cannot be excommunicated, for he in no way belongs to the Church. Among living persons, those who have not been baptized have never been members of the
Christian society and therefore cannot be deprived of spiritual benefits to which they have never had a right; in this way, infidels, pagans,
Mohammedans, and Jews, though outside of the Church, are not excommunicated. As the baptized cease, at death, to belong to the Church Militant, the dead cannot be excommunicated. Of course, strictly speaking, after the demise of a
Christian person, it may be officially declared that such person incurred excommunication during his lifetime. Quite in the same sense he may be absolved after his death; indeed, the Roman Ritual contains the rite for absolving an excommunicated person already dead (Tit. III, cap. iv: Ritus absolvendi excommunicatum jam mortuum). However, these sentences or absolutions concern only the effects of excommunication, notably ecclesiastical burial.
With the foregoing exceptions, all who have been baptized are liable to excommunication, even those who have never belonged to the true Church, since by their baptism they are really her subjects, though of course rebellious ones. Moreover,
the Church excommunicates not only those who abandon the true faith to embrace schism or heresy, but likewise the members of heretical and schismatic communities who have been born therein. As to the latter, however, it is not question of personal excommunication; the censure overtakes them in their corporate capacity, as members of a community in revolt against the true
Church of Jesus Christ.
newadvent.org/cathen/05678a.htm
What do you think of the above quote puzzleannie?
entire OP is so full of error and misinformation, and the entire idea of a poll so useless and ridiculous. You do not post an opinion poll on a topic that has already been defined. You can’t have an opinion about a fact.
Poll: cheese is made of milk; cheese is made of gasoline; cheese is made of mud–post your opinion. How stupid.
church punishments, if by that you mean canon law disciplines such as excommunication, of course apply only to Catholics because only Catholics are bound by canon law. that has always been true, no change. You can’t excommunicate (remove from communion or membership) someone who is not already in communion or a member. That would be like Joe Paterno telling a Michigan player: that’s it, you are barred from playing for Penn State. He can’t do it, the Michigan player is not a member of the Penn St. team.
the Catholic church never taught all Protestants are doomed to hell, in fact she taught, (by using canon law discipline against dissident priests) that it is heresy to teach that idea.
that is a complete misstatement of the doctrine that all salvation comes through the Catholic Church. That doctrine is amply defined on the CA homepage and defended in dozens of previous threads here. Do a search if that is what you are really fishing for.
