So here’s a question for canon lawyers: could +Dolan have written Cuomo and ordered him not to sign the abortion bill under pain of excommunication and then followed through if Cuomo signed it?
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But does this approach cultivate righteous hearts or just people who obey for fear of punishment? What I mean is, are they obeying God or obeying their fear? “Don’t you dare do it or else” versus “If you do this you are choosing excommunication” are enormously different.
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1/2Religious men & women make a vow of obedience, whereby they submit to the will of their superiors, & can be ordered to do or stop doing things contrary to their own will, & in fact are so many times. But their actions aren't meaningless...
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Now, all of us who call ourselves Catholics declared in our confirmation that we wanted to live as such, & this includes obedience to the Church in pertinent matters. So if She orders us to do something it is still meritorious even if we don't want it.
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