Junior minister refused communion - ‘excommunicated’

9 To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: 10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’

13 “But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’

14 “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

It's good to know there's a new official way to get excommunicated. Ever since the changes to cannon law in 2009 and the count me out site shutting down there's been no way to officially remove yourself from the churches register.

In reality though the priest has no right to excommunicate anyone as that's an action that can only be taken by someone far higher up the food chain and for very specific reasons of which voting to support abortion is absolutely not one of them for obvious reasons. The priest is an idiot and a hypocrite.

If they knew that doing so was against the teaching of the church, and still went ahead with it, yes.
A womans right to choose what exactly? Killing a defenceless human being? Abhorrent thing to do.

Strong whiff of wanting to have his cake and eat it from the TD.

Same in my town. Amazing people.

The best of Irish society.

By that I mean the amount of work they do behind the scenes for the poorest and vulnerable.

Problem is that in church law abortion itself is the ex communicable offense, not voting for it, you might want to argue anyone who voted for it actually has assisted in abortions but doing that will mean requiring the immediate excommunication of 1,428,981 people or rather everyone of those who was catholic. Secondly a parish priest cannot excommunicate anybody. This whole thing is grand standing nonsense by the narcissistic priest.

Did he go to the papers or the media?
CB is doing the grandstanding.

Automatic excommunication for abortion (CIC 1398) applies not only to the woman who has the abortion, but to “all those who commit this crime with knowledge of the penalty attached, and [this] includes those accomplices without whose help the crime would not have been committed” (Evangelium Vitae 62).
I think pushing for the referendum counts in this case.

Then so be it. And stop crying over it.

a lot of these TDs are pushing for significant social change YET seem shocked when they face consequences whether it be by the ballot box OR the local priest denouncing from the altar.

Great so everyone who voted for it if catholic should be excommunicated, personally im delighted as the count me out loophole had been closed before id heard about it, if I knew voting for abortion could get me of the cults list of members id have voted for it twice as hard and bolded my tick. Also like I previously said a parish priest cant do this anyway. It needs to go to the Bishop of the diocese or if hes to busy i guess you could try the Pope.

Cool, do you also support excommunication of all the Catholics who voted to repeal? We gonna excommunicate all those who supported same sex marriage as well? 🤣

Unfortunately thats not an ex communicable offense, handy list is here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excommunication_in_the_Catholic_Church#Latae_sententiae

Personally im interested in desecration of the eucharist as the easiest one as they dont seem to care too much about the first one on the list, ive been an apostate for more than half my life but still no excommunication…..

Knock yourself out!
I'll help you pack and drive ya to the airport.

Mostly taking two pills. A bit like a headache really.

The priest never said he excommunicated anyone.
Show me the quote where it said he did …

The usual irony of suggesting others don't understand, when you can't make a statement based on fact.