To be clear, everyone involved in the abortion is excommunicated, too — including any men who performed, enabled, or encouraged it. This “Year of Mercy” thing applies to them as well as to the person on whom the abortion was performed.

Is it telephone if there were surviving eyewitnesses available at the time of writing? Jesus died in the 30s A.D., but his followers survived for decades after — long enough to see at least some of the Gospels and most of the Epistles in wide circulation.

Well, the scholarly consensus places the authorship of the Pauline letters (the authentic ones) in the 40s, Mark in the 60s or 70s, Matthew in the 80s, Luke in the 80s or 90s, and then John the outlier in the first decade of the second century. Jesus died right around 31.

Umm... he said 2 and 5 pretty clearly. Heck, Matt 12:34 is a lot harsher than “disappointment.” And 5 forms the very last words of Matthew’s Gospel (Matt 28:19-20).

The tag history suggests they’ve been doing it regularly for just a few weeks, but point taken. Not really sure how I did miss it.

Confused. Why is this on Jezebel, and not just an entry in the local crime blotter?

Hey, are you /u/QDefenestration from /r/Catholicism? Fancy bumping into you here!

Serious answer: Excommunication is, at heart, a juridic measure. It’s imposed by men on men. It can even be imposed mistakenly (or maliciously). It denies the graces of the sacraments to the excommunicate, and it is normally only imposed on those who have publicly and unrepentently committed a mortal sin, but it does…

Incidentally, the Pro-Choice Arizona statistic about Arizona having the second-highest teen pregnancy rate is wrong. PCA gives no source, but every primary source I could find ranked Arizona somewhere between 6th place and 18th place. (This varies by source, by year, and occasionally by ethnic mix of the survey…

She believes the exact same thing President Obama believes about vaccines: they’re a good idea, and can be required by public schools... but the final decision about using them belongs to parents.

The rules on classified documents were, as your source makes clear. And we know that classified information passed through the server (http://nypost.com/2015/07/31/doz…), although it is possible that it was all mismarked as unclassified. The legal danger to HRC is real, if remote.

I don’t have hard data on individual sites, but the only empirical evidence I’m aware of suggests left-wing people establish more of an echo-chamber than conservatives, not less.

The problem with the Kinsey reports is that their methods of statistical collection were, in modern terms, absolute wild bullcrap. As BoxTurtleBulletin put it a couple years ago:

All he said was, “Every day in the nearly 1,000 abortions they do, they brutally rip apart about ... 100 gay babies...”

I defer to your local experience.

This should get all 54 Republicans on board, including the pro-choice ones, because it’s not a direct abortion restriction, but just a funding measure (and, let’s be honest here, any Republican who votes against this WILL lose their next primary, even in Maine). It should also nab the votes of the three Democrats who…

Huh? Of the eight people on that podium, seven of them were not even in federal office when the “fetal tissue donation” bill passed.

Hey! IDIC!

I live in St. Paul, Minnesota, which is roughly as blue than Oklahoma City is red (going by the Cook Partisan Voting Index and accounting for OK’s more thorough gerrymander). That level of hatred for W. was perfectly routine during his presidency — though there were also other Democrats who called out the haters for…

He’s multitasking.