(07-31-2025, 04:57 PM)Chris Wrote: That's a great point about excommunication, it's a reminder that the Church, although being the closest we can get to truth at any given point, is still not always 100% right admit everything... but probably always safer to be on the same side.
Exactly; practically there will be a "lag" in cases like this, but more importantly perhaps, is how the internal turning to God is the primary. The spiritual dynamic comes first. The Mercy of the Heavens is bigger than the Church approval.