Not only should they not consider themselves excommunicated, but they ought to be able to live and mature as living members of the Church, experiencing her as a mother who also accompanies them, who cares for them with affection, and who encourages them on the way of life and of the Gospel.
As a mother? In whose company they will be able to live and mature? Clinging to Mama? Under her care and affection?
Come on, synodical prelates. You are our shepherds, we are the sheep, baaa. We know that. And for ages we have heard of holy mother the church. And we no longer, except among outliers, hear of the church militant.
But don’t we hear much, much more than we used to in these days of the therapeutic model of church as cuddler? Led now by pope as universal cuddler.
Blithe Spirit 