re: #258 SixDegrees

If you don’t care about the religion part, then you have no say in how the religion operates. Excommunication is a strictly religious matter, and it remains up to the Church how and when it should be applied.

I agree that they should be removed from the priesthood, and that they should be handed over to the civil authorities for investigation, trial and punishment. But in the Catholic realm, excommunication is as serious as it gets, and isn’t something that’s taken lightly for the reasons already stated.

I don’t care what the church does with them AFTER the justice system is done with their ass.