Luther's Excommunication: Francis Rejects German Appeal

Submitted by LocutusOP on Tue, 01/19/2021 - 23:14
Author: 

mccallansteve ,  Ultraviolet   

Date: 
Tuesday, January 19, 2021 - 23:15
Article link: 
Luther's Excommunication: Francis Rejects German Appeal

 

mccallansteve
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3 jan.

 

The time is not right for them to lift the excommunication. Someday it will be.

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Ultraviolet
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4 jan.

 

Yeah, four hours after Hell freezes over @mccallansteve Luther's arrogance was directly responsible for centuries of European warfare and an incalculable amount of misery, bloodshed and hatred that continues to this day.

This is a sorry and all-too-common reflection of nationalism among certain German Catholics. They're still trying to exonerate "one of their own". What it shows is their first loyalty is to their German heritage and their countrymen, not to The Church or its teachings. Surprise, surprise, surprise...

Own comment: 

It is difficult to see what a lifting of Martin Luther's excommunication would do in terms of good, even if such a thing could be done canonically which it can't given he never repented of his heresies and would do him no good anyway since excommunication is a punishment for the living.

Still, leave it to the German Church to do its utmost to further the cause of heresies and evil for goodness knows what reason. The only surprise here, I suppose, is that Bergoglio did not go along with it despite the many good words he has said about the man and the complete non-condemnation he has had for that particularly turgid monster of an ex-monk, one of the worst humans ever conceived bar none.