I've addressed that, @Lowly Layman. I said, "You don't, technically speaking, fall under the latae sententiae classification, because that's a...
You're expecting a simple "Yes" or "No", when my answer requires explanation. And I think that you know that. Again: So, yes, in such a case,...
I brought that terminology up because I thought that it could help you understand. I was clearly wrong. What is it about my explanation that you...
You don't, technically speaking, fall under the latae sententiae classification, because that's a formal designation under canon law. But one in...
http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=646
Did either of you fully read my earlier comment on latae sententiae excommunication? It ties in with that.
Did any of you read what I excerpted from ScriptureCatholic?
So, yes, profiting from a loan at all -- making money for nothing -- can be usurious in some cases, but it can also be allowed in the modern...
Also from ScriptureCatholic.org:
You said, @Spherelink: "The RCC church doesn't excommunicate you (rescind full communion) every time you commit a mortal sin (fall from the state...
From Wikipedia:
You're not in full communion if you're not in a full state of grace. "..those bonds of communion -- faith, sacraments, and pastoral governance --...
The charging of interest is only unlawful on "unproductive loans" (as Hilaire Belloc notes), but I don't feel that those were terribly commonplace...
Crisis Magazine is not infallible, and yet, you seem to promote it as such, just to further a petty agenda. Cite authoritative documents of the...
That writer's expertise is in sacred music, according to his biography. Do you find his comments on history more accurate than the comments of a...
- @Spherelink No, it is not, and I dare you to attempt to find even one Church document that explicitly says otherwise.
That the Saint had an influence on modern Marxism does not mean that he would have endorsed it. Read some analyses of Utopia.
You're not as familiar as I am with my Church's theology, I assure you. What do you think "full communion" is in reference to? Full participation...
Tell that to Ludwig von Pastor, one of the foremost experts on Church history. (And he was, of course, pre-Vatican II.)
- @Spherelink Because of the definition that I provided. Saints made clear that *unreasonable interest* was incompatible with Christianity. And...