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AStern

(898 posts) Tue Apr 14, 2026, 03:32 PM Apr 14

Not a Catholic but am I the only one that would love for the Pope to excommunicate the likes of Vance and Gingrich?

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Make it happen Leo! 🤞

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Not a Catholic but am I the only one that would love for the Pope to excommunicate the likes of Vance and Gingrich? (Original Post) AStern Apr 14 OP

That's a good start FoxNewsSucks Apr 14 #1

after a long aggressive inquisition IA8IT Apr 14 #2

LOL malaise Apr 14 #3

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

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

Not sure it would ever happen Norbert Apr 14 #6

Also KaroLYIN Leavitt who went to St. Anselm's College and Marco Rubio Ritabert Apr 14 #7

Deny communion to him very publicly Sanity Claws Apr 14 #8

Burn them at the stake? GenThePerservering Apr 14 #9

All the Opus dei on SCOTUS (and Leonard Leo as well): Alito, for sure and hlthe2b Apr 14 #10

Excommunication is for sinful activity. Jacson6 Apr 14 #11

FoxNewsSucks

(11,873 posts)

1. That's a good start

Reply to AStern (Original post)

Tue Apr 14, 2026, 03:35 PM

Apr 14

There should be daily excommunications.

And exorcisms.

IA8IT

(6,443 posts)

2. after a long aggressive inquisition

Reply to AStern (Original post)

Tue Apr 14, 2026, 03:39 PM

Apr 14

malaise

(297,354 posts)

3. LOL

Reply to AStern (Original post)

Tue Apr 14, 2026, 03:43 PM

Apr 14

Long line ahead of you

3catwoman3

(29,667 posts)

4. Contented agnostic Unitarian Universalist here. The fake piety of the likes of Vance and Gingrich...

Reply to AStern (Original post)

Tue Apr 14, 2026, 03:45 PM

Apr 14

...is extremely offensive.

I was appalled when Callista Gingrich was made ambassador to The Vatican.

sop

(19,064 posts)

5. The Church needs another auto-da-fe to weed out heretics, apostates and false believers.

Reply to AStern (Original post)

Tue Apr 14, 2026, 03:50 PM

Apr 14

Norbert

(7,826 posts)

6. Not sure it would ever happen

Reply to AStern (Original post)

Tue Apr 14, 2026, 03:53 PM

Apr 14

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.

Ritabert

(2,549 posts)

7. Also KaroLYIN Leavitt who went to St. Anselm's College and Marco Rubio

Reply to AStern (Original post)

Tue Apr 14, 2026, 04:12 PM

Apr 14

Sean Duffy, John Ratcliffe, and maybe RFK Jr.

Sanity Claws

(22,427 posts)

8. Deny communion to him very publicly

Reply to AStern (Original post)

Tue Apr 14, 2026, 04:39 PM

Apr 14

Some fucking right wing Catholic priest did that to Biden because he supported abortion rights. https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/29/politics/joe-biden-denied-communion-south-carolina-catholic-church

GenThePerservering

(3,579 posts)

9. Burn them at the stake?

Reply to AStern (Original post)

Tue Apr 14, 2026, 04:42 PM

Apr 14

Use green wood.

hlthe2b

(114,376 posts)

10. All the Opus dei on SCOTUS (and Leonard Leo as well): Alito, for sure and

Reply to AStern (Original post)

Tue Apr 14, 2026, 07:48 PM

Apr 14

Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett and Roberts (Opus dei does not confirm, but all of the former are linked through Leonard Leo).

Given the Vatican under both Francis and especially Leo are trying to contain or dismantle Opus dei, they can start there. At least take Leo and Alito.

Jacson6

(2,117 posts)

11. Excommunication is for sinful activity.

Reply to AStern (Original post)

Tue Apr 14, 2026, 08:17 PM

Apr 14

They would just have to go to confession to be no longer excommunicated. The catchesim and the canon law rule the Catholic Church.

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