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JRedesjJale , , who ; * had no ; infer-< coui ; se with anyjInUb Catholics , or any ^ rnt ans of < thtaining ' correct information , confidently declared , in . a . great j > ut > lic assembly , that * Excoiniu . uiiicacion from the
Cathnlic church is , la Ireland , not . &im \* i v a separation-, from-tbe body . of ti {<> . faithful , but , to all intents and purposes , an interdiction , ab aqua ef igni : . that no Catholic dares . Co . administer a cup of cold water ,, or a crust of < Jry bread , or any other necessary sustenance to
3 n excomm . unicated person : and th p jf t } ie offence which draws down this heavy sentence , is any friend * ly intercourse which a Catholic may be found to hold with Protestants / ' : ,
jAll those assertions , we must distinctly say , are directly contrary to the feet . Th , ? , truth is , tha > t this punishment , &o much fmisrepuesenledV rs
actually limited ; to the ¦ . ' * - Sepaitu tioa . of , a Christian , leading a dis * - orffcrly , lifc f disgracing < his professipfl ^ / rpn ^ t he Chrisuan congregatipn , find a banishment of such person from the church / ' i more
It ^^ K ^ Mats to neither nor less ( h ^ u the remova l of a , mem be r ° f % ny , o \ h $ r , neligious society from that society ; . for ? disorderly ; and disgraceful conduct * vould * amount tQs iXhtrneM ensues , no interdict
. againsf any , other person commu . t-Qicad ^ ng . wilh the , expelled member M tgWlkorvlfy jexoep ^ t sO ffar . as such communion may expend to a wan - ton ^ a < l contumacious encourageniei > jt ^ Ujd app robation of the conthe
duct ; so . puni ^ b ^ d . On con . trar y , the Catholic discipline ex-P ress Jy > declares several fcinds ^ of Ce nrvpfirgl communion to be wholly ^ naffe cted by excommunication . -They are compressed * for brevity ' s
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sake , in the followijiig lifter ^• Utile , * lex , hd mile , res ignorata , , necesse . " . \ •• • .. * . These ^ five h ^ ads of exception to the temporal conbeiquences > of ex . communicatio . n are so
comprehensive as to embrace every supposa * . ble temporal case : they are constr ^ ed with great indulgence , and accepted with every latitude . The excommunicated person retains his claim to all the offices of
chanty , to relief in his necessities , to employment for his industry , to associate with others for all useful or necessary purposes , and to maintain the ordinary relations of society , as master , husband , father , soldier , trader . &c , < &c .
As for excommunication of any person for associating with thfe expelled member , or eyen-forven . cpuraging and abetting him , we believe that no instance of the
kind has occurred : at least , none with the sanction of any Catholic bishop in Ireland . The ^ Catholic * clergy have been unjustly accused' of pronouncing this . sentence in light and frequent cases . Now , on the contrary , it
is reserved as the punishmvnt of crimes of gross enormity or turpitude . Only two instances' of it have occurred during the lust 24 years ,, in the populous arch-diocese of Dublin , wherein , from fhe vicious habits of a great capital , the . most numerous instances of
the exercise'of . this- power may naturally beo supposed to have existed . Dufmg the preceding \ J years only two other instances of the like nature occurred . Vet
none of th
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&envl % , mo $ whieh aggrieve the Catholics ofllrelaftd . 423
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1812, page 423, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1750/page/15/
