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RCRC is based in Washington, D.C. Its national president, Rev. Harry Knox, participated in the Cleveland demonstration as well, and told the Columbus Dispatch, “I’m here today standing alongside my fellow clergymen and clergywomen to say, thank God for abortion providers.”
Knox is a "married" homosexual who has also spearheaded same-sex “marriage” efforts in Georgia and Florida.
The group held signs that said to be pro-abortion is to be "pro-family" and "pro-faith." Other signs read, "Good women have abortions."
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"Good women have abortions." Fuddy-duddy alert follows: I suppose I was brought up differently. My understanding was that "good women" would never place themselves in the position of needing abortions.
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Good women don't kill their babies.
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This shows that the real difference between churches is not whether the Filioque is used in the Nicene Creed or not and other historic disagreements.
The real difference lies in the interpretation of Christian traditional and scripture-based morality.
Ecumenical talks have to draw the line somewhere -otherwise we run the risk of giving tacit approval to such aberrations by even speaking with such "Christians!"
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Fr. Z. has stated similar things on his blog. I agree. In addition, our bishops should have the tenacity to openly cut off ties with any "denomination" that allows women to "ordain" themselves in their buildings while calling themselves "RC Women priests". This is one area I admire men like Bishop Hilarion, he doesn't parse words and play nice to these groups.
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Excommunication was taken very seriously in the Middle Ages and was greatly feared. It meant that one was not only cut off from the Church - but from Heaven as well!
There is a curious case in Paris, the Church of St Medard which tells this story.
Two priests from Notre Dame were in the habit of visiting a baker for his delicious meat pies . . .
As it turned out, the baker was later tried for the crime of dismembering human bodies and using human flesh in his ... pies.
For this, the baker suffered the death penalty. But the priests were themselves excommunicated for cannibalism. Their bishop did tell them, however, that they should go on a pilgrimate to Rome to ask the Pope's blessing and removal of the excommunication.
So the priests set off. During one of their rest-stops, it so happened that their bishop was also travelling not too far away when he was set upon by robbers.
Hearing the bishop's cries for help, the two priests rushed at the (well-armed) robbers and chased them away. For this, the bishop absolved them and received them back into the unity of the Church . . .
They could not, for whatever reason, go back to serve at Notre Dame, so they were appointed to serve at St Medard's Church, about a mile away. St Medard became the only parish in the Middle Ages where one could get the penalty of excommunication lifted for the crime of cannibalism . . .
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