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2. The SCOTUS Fab Five will probably end up doing more harm ...

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Sat Jun 21, 2014, 04:41 PM

Jun 2014

than the Godfathers; if the Pope is looking for folks to excommunicate.

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Mafiosi are 'excommunicated', pope says [View all] alp227 Jun 2014 OP

Good first move. Now go for the other "organised crime groups". Long list these days. mahannah Jun 2014 #1

Yes!!!! billhicks76 Jun 2014 #10

The GOP is one of those groups SummerSnow Jun 2014 #18

Funny you bring up the GOP WHEN CRABS ROAR Jun 2014 #21

The SCOTUS Fab Five will probably end up doing more harm ... GeorgeGist Jun 2014 #2

I admire the confrontation, but…. toby jo Jun 2014 #3

Being fair to the man quakerboy Jun 2014 #4

just as a point of information, the inquisition and the witch burnings were NOT niyad Jun 2014 #6

Fair enough quakerboy Jun 2014 #12

reading comprehension is your friend. the poster said 1800 years OF, not niyad Jun 2014 #24

Wow. quakerboy Jun 2014 #28

no, let's not fight. I have been fighting with that corrupt, woman-hating niyad Jun 2014 #35

Thanks for the reading quakerboy Jun 2014 #42

Well, let's just let bygones be bygones. toby jo Jun 2014 #37

Where did I say that? quakerboy Jun 2014 #38

but Quakerboy is correct about the perpetrators pretty much being dead and the Pope samsingh Jun 2014 #39

if we are being held accountable for every atrocity every peer group has done ages ago roguevalley Jun 2014 #29

Great now how about the child molestors you're still harbor ing and financing Bickle Jun 2014 #5

What a stupid post. rug Jun 2014 #13

You sure Bickle Jun 2014 #20

That would be two. rug Jun 2014 #22

It gets very annoying Fortinbras Armstrong Jun 2014 #30

Yeah, they have pesky things like women's autonomy and anti-child-rape on their agendas. Arugula Latte Jun 2014 #41

Eeks. Does he want to become a saint? He may get killed. McCamy Taylor Jun 2014 #7

perhaps a currently praciticing catholic can correct me, but, as I understand niyad Jun 2014 #8

Excommunication removes you entirely from the Church rpannier Jun 2014 #9

There are two types of excommunication. rug Jun 2014 #16

Latae sententiae can be lifted simply by going to Confession with a priest. melm00se Jun 2014 #32

That's true whenever somebody goes to Confession. rug Jun 2014 #36

Oh No WovenGems Jun 2014 #11

Pruning the Tree of Evil Demeter Jun 2014 #14

I never did understand why over the years in NYC LiberalElite Jun 2014 #15

That's not surprising. I grew up near Bensonhurst and worked for a time in Dyker Heights Brooklyn. bklyncowgirl Jun 2014 #45

I like the way they did it back in Medieval England packman Jun 2014 #17

He's going after them, the banks, the tax cheats and government austerity mooks. I like that. freshwest Jun 2014 #19

and, essentially leaving the pedophile priests alone, and still treated women niyad Jun 2014 #23

Russell Brand got 50K to London on that basis. Great PR there, too. freshwest Jun 2014 #25

I'm not sure about this JustAnotherGen Jun 2014 #26

the whole Honduran government also got excommunicated 1979 (also a narcostate) MisterP Jun 2014 #27

Is there any evidence that this did any good whatsoever? Smarmie Doofus Jun 2014 #31

I took some grief for defending this Pope in another thread WhoWoodaKnew Jun 2014 #33

He should avoid small planes IronLionZion Jun 2014 #34

How about you also excommunicate the child rapist, Francis? Arugula Latte Jun 2014 #40

wonder what thinks of the Bush crime family? olddad56 Jun 2014 #43

Wonder what he thinks of Paul Ryan and his Ayn Rand worshipping acolytes. amandabeech Jun 2014 #44

Message auto-removed Name removed Jun 2014 #46

So is the Godfather just the Father now? Kablooie Jun 2014 #47