Excommunication and the Catholic Church : 60 Questions & Answers (Straight Answers to Tough Questions) (Ascension Press)

Description

In this intriguing book, canon and civil lawyer Edward N. Peters offers a compelling presentation of excommunication based on the current Code of Canon Law, answering some of the most commonly-asked questions about this most serious canonical penalty.

Among the questions considered here:

• What is excommunication?
• How is a person excommunicated?
• Isn’t excommunication an offense against Christian charity?
• Is there any support in the Bible for excommunication?
• Can Catholic politicians be excommunicated for defying Church teaching, especially on abortion?

This book is an especially timely resource. It will help you understand the larger role excommunication may soon play in promoting greater fidelity to the truths of the Catholic Faith.