Why three. One is sufficient.He should be given three separate warnings to withdraw from this organization and some time to do so.
If, after three warnings and some leeway time, he refuses to withdraw from the Masons, he should be formally excommunicated. But doesn’t joining masonry carry with it
Latae-Sentiae (ipso facto) Excommunication??
Peter had 3 chances to not deny Jesus and he still blew it. You don’t think this priest deserves every chance to turn himself around?Why three. One is sufficient.
Pax tecum!I see your point, Mike.
But Peter didn’t try to JOIN the Sanhedrin.
Still, scripture calls for admonishing the sinner two or three times, then a public rebuke, then if no response, then expulsion from the congregation.
God bless,
Jaypeeto3
I thought joining the Masons was now covered by canon 1374, which does not specifically prescribe excommunication? (And certainly not one imposed without process?)The first time, we are to go to them ourselves. If the refuse to repent, we are to go with two witnesses. If they refuse then, we are to go to the Church. Then if they still refuse, they are to be “as a gentile or tax collector”. However, joining the Masons does indeed carry the penalty of ipso facto excommunication, so in this the priest has already excommunicated himself.
Pray that this error may be corrected,Can. 1374 A person who joins an association which plots against the Church is to be punished with a just penalty - one who promotes or takes office in such an association is to be punished with an interdict.