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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
Yep, this aspect is uniform from a theological perspective at least.
And excommunication sounds really horrible, but it's fixable through confession and penance, assume that you accept that you've done something wrong. It's not a permanent state, unless you want it to be basically.
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Not sure if it's just 'if you want it' to be. If you truly believe you haven't done wrong, then you're 'stuck' so to speak, as any confession would be invalid and dishonest. *blinks* Holy disappearing post, Batman.
Interesting opinion piece on
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Sister McBride is allowed to return to the church if she confesses, does penance and works with the church to help manage the scandal. I want to tell her this: "Don't confess. Mercy is not a sin." I don't know about Bishop Olmsted's God, but my God is a merciful God. And dogma without mercy is hollow. It makes people capable of great cruelty.
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Although the personal story she shares is different in that a doctor allowed her grandmother's unborn child to die and didn't perform a C-section that he thought would kill the woman.
I wonder what Sister McBride will do, but odds are it won't be nearly as public as this whole ordeal has been.