The Patrick Madrid Show: July 15, 2022 - Hour 3
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
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🗓️ 15 July 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Patrick takes calls about being excommunicated, drinking all the communion wine, not getting married in the Catholic Church and the Protestant idea of “Baptism of the Holy Spirit.”
Tom – Can a Catholic self-excommunicate?
Peter - At communion, someone drank whole cup of wine. Is that a problem?
Aida - I think you handled the caller about rape and incest really well. I used to support abortion, but have since become pro-life.
Joe - Regarding people not getting married in the Catholic Church. I think you should tell them your opinion right away that you aren't going to attend while they are in the planning stage of the marriage
- Diane - Women, don't have an abortion: My Ex-husband wanted me to have an abortion. I was very depressed but then I visit a church and prayed the rosary. Then I felt her tell me 'do not worry, I will be with you always through this'. I ended up not having an abortion. My daughter is now 34.
- Adrienne - Both a priest and a professor at my daughter's school said that even though rape is terrible, if the rapist shouldn't be torn limb from limb then why should the innocent baby be?
- Robert - We are thinking about using in vitro fertilization. is that okay to do? Is the same as abortion?
- Dilbert - Would it be proper for a Catholic to get married outside the church?
- Dawn - Can you explain the protestant idea of 'Baptism in the Holy Spirit' evidence by speaking in tongues?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right. |
| 0:07.0 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, encouragement for your day. |
| 0:14.0 | It's the Patrick Madrid Show on Relevant Radio. |
| 0:18.0 | All right, here we are, hour three, and we have lines open, believe it or not, 888-9149-9-149. |
| 0:26.3 | 888-9149. |
| 0:29.7 | An email came in from Tom saying, is there any truth to the statement that a Catholic can self-excommunicate |
| 0:34.8 | when he persists in public statements and actions on grave matters that |
| 0:38.7 | contravene church teaching. I have seen this put forward by some theologians, but there |
| 0:43.2 | appears to be no consensus on this issue. I find it to be perfectly logical. Am I mistaken to |
| 0:49.3 | believe this? Well, keep in mind that excommunication is a penalty that is administered by the church under her law. |
| 0:58.2 | So this is referring to canon law. And it is reserved for certain kinds of delicts or canonical |
| 1:04.9 | crimes. So what I would suggest is to get all the wise and wherefores on the question of excommunication. |
| 1:12.6 | Read a book by a canon lawyer's name is Ed Peters. |
| 1:16.6 | It's called Excommunication in the Catholic Church. |
| 1:19.6 | Straight answers to tough questions. |
| 1:21.6 | And there are 60 different questions in this book. |
| 1:24.6 | It's not very long, but it will give you all the wise and wherefores, |
| 1:28.6 | including the explanation of what circumstances must be in place for somebody to be |
| 1:34.4 | automatically excommunicated. I believe the term for that is lete sentencier, which is where you, |
| 1:41.8 | by virtue of the act itself, you have automatically been excommunicated. |
| 1:46.2 | It doesn't require a pronouncement on the part of the church. |
| 1:49.9 | I mean, the church could pronounce it publicly, but the act itself incurs automatic excommunication. |
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