They really don't understand how medicine works, don't they?
Quote:Massachusetts Gov. Healey faces Catholic excommunication threat over abortion bill
An online petition calling on Boston Archbishop Richard Henning to excommunicate Healey has collected over 19,000 signatures since pro-life advocacy group LifeSite launched it on Wednesday.
The petition accuses Healey of sinning “gravely against God by legalizing the killing of babies until birth” and urges Henning to declare her excommunicated following her “scandalous betrayal of God’s law.” It argues that such penalties exist to “prompt the repentance of sinners and the salvation of souls.”
When a person is excommunicated, they are barred from participating in Church rituals, such as receiving Holy Communion.
Adding to the pressure, Kelsey Reinhardt, president of the independent lobbying group CatholicVote, sent a letter to Massachusetts bishops describing excommunication as a “censure whose explicit purpose is not retribution but conversion.”
Pointing to the legislation as a “horrendous lesson taught by a Catholic governor,” Reinhardt wrote that church law offers an opportunity to inform Healey “that she has gone somewhere she cannot remain without consequence. The purpose is to bring back her soul.”
https://www.bostonherald.com/2026/08/15/...on-threat/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
