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Question 23 - OF COMMUNICATION WITH EXCOMMUNICATED PERSON (THREE ARTICLES)
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Summa Theologiae — Question 23 - OF COMMUNICATION WITH EXCOMMUNICATED PERSON (THREE ARTICLES) Thomas Aquinas Fathers of the English Dominican Province
1 Treatise on the Sacrament of Penance
1.1 Question. 23 - OF COMMUNICATION WITH EXCOMMUNICATED PERSONS (THREE ARTICLES)
1.1.1 Art. 1 - Whether it is lawful, in matters purely corporal, to communicate with an excommunicated person?
1.1.2 Art. 2 - Whether a person incurs excommunication for communicating with one who is excommunicated?
1.1.3 Art. 3 - Whether it is always a mortal sin to communicate with an excommunicated person in other cases than those in which it is allowed?
Treatise on the Sacrament of Penance[edit]
Question. 23 - OF COMMUNICATION WITH EXCOMMUNICATED PERSONS (THREE ARTICLES)[edit]
Art. 1 - Whether it is lawful, in matters purely corporal, to communicate with an excommunicated person?[edit]
Objection 2: Further, "What is instituted for the sake of charity, does not militate against charity" (Cf.[4884] Q[11], A[1], OBJ[1]). But we are bound by the precept of charity to succor our enemies, which is impossible without some sort of communication. Therefore it is lawful to communicate with an excommunicated person in corporal matters.
Art. 2 - Whether a person incurs excommunication for communicating with one who is excommunicated?[edit]
Art. 3 - Whether it is always a mortal sin to communicate with an excommunicated person in other cases than those in which it is allowed?[edit]
I answer that, Some hold that it is always a mortal sin to hold communion with an excommunicated person, by word or in any of the forbidden ways mentioned above [4885](A[2]), except in those cases allowed by law (Cap. Quoniam). But since it seems very hard that a man should be guilty of a mortal sin by uttering just a slight word to an excommunicated person, and that by excommunicating a person one would endanger the salvation of many, and lay a snare which might turn to one's own hurt, it seems to others more probable that he is not always guilty of a mortal sin, but only when he holds communion with him in a criminal deed, or in an act of Divine worship, or through contempt of the Church.
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