The article compared Scientology's "suppressive persons" declarations to the traditional Catholic excommunication, where a person is barred from the sacraments but not actively persecuted by the church afterwards. Amy asked if the Mormon church does the same thing as Scientology and I was telling her that no, Mormon excommunication is mu…
The article compared Scientology's "suppressive persons" declarations to the traditional Catholic excommunication, where a person is barred from the sacraments but not actively persecuted by the church afterwards. Amy asked if the Mormon church does the same thing as Scientology and I was telling her that no, Mormon excommunication is much closer to how the Catholic church handles it. Excommunication IS a thing in Catholicism and has been basically since your church was founded, it's just very rarely exercised these days.
The article compared Scientology's "suppressive persons" declarations to the traditional Catholic excommunication, where a person is barred from the sacraments but not actively persecuted by the church afterwards. Amy asked if the Mormon church does the same thing as Scientology and I was telling her that no, Mormon excommunication is much closer to how the Catholic church handles it. Excommunication IS a thing in Catholicism and has been basically since your church was founded, it's just very rarely exercised these days.