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?
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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Authoritarian versus authoritative is what I mean. The bishop has every right to use discipline. But threats specifically are the crux of the question here. Is threatening acceptable?
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