Bad karma. (excommunication of Sri Lankan liberation theologian Tissa Balasuriya)(Editorial)

From: Commonweal | Date: January 31, 1997 | Copyright information

The Vatican must show that its decision to excommunicate liberation theologian Tissa Balasuriya is not a throwback to authoritarianism. The Sri Lankan priest was excommunicated for his heretical views of Original Sin, Assumption, Immaculate Conception, papal infallibility and salvation.

Excommunication sounds worse than it is - at least we hope that's true. Ideally, or so the technical definitions suggest, excommunication is a pastoral tool of last resort used both to protect the i...

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