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Norbert

(7,806 posts)

6. Not sure it would ever happen

Reply to AStern (Original post)

Tue Apr 14, 2026, 03:53 PM

14 hrs ago

Though I agree with you.

One of my dad's best friends was excommunicated from the Catholic Church. His transgression? He married a divorced woman. I don't know why they took such a hard line. They were married until death some 45 years later.

That would probably not happen today.

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Not a Catholic but I'm the only one that would love for the Pope to excommunicate the likes of Vance and Gingrich? [View all] AStern 15 hrs ago OP

That's a good start FoxNewsSucks 15 hrs ago #1

after a long aggressive inquisition IA8IT 15 hrs ago #2

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Contented agnostic Unitarian Universalist here. The fake piety of the likes of Vance and Gingrich... 3catwoman3 14 hrs ago #4

The Church needs another auto-da-fe to weed out heretics, apostates and false believers. sop 14 hrs ago #5

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