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Originally Posted by Psi U MC Vito
To be fair, these are just offenses where you are automatically excommunicated. I actually think a few priests were excommunicated for molestation of children. I do find it strange that rape is not on there. I don't recall, but it is possible that rape as a concept is not in the bible, or at least any differently from other forms of unmarried intercourse.
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Priests have been defrocked, or left the church but have not been "officially" excommunicated.
You'll note that the list is primarily violations of church law. Abortion is the only thing that could be considered a civil crime (though legal in the US) except assaulting the pope. And then it's more that you hit "THE POPE" than that you hit this guy named Ratzinger.
It bothers me to no end that abortion was deemed worthy of being on this list and no other types of murder (as that is why it is a sin according to the church)
Rape in the bible is an offense against the man to whom the woman belongs: her father or her husband. The church doesn't consider it that today, but this list is not biblically based anyway per se.
Someone who committed murder would be refused communion and expected to confess to a priest, and usually these days penance would include turning themselves in but not excommunicated.
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