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and motes  A bit of an offshoot from the separation question.
 Here are some basic facts:  83% of sexually active Catholic
women who are not actively trying to get pregnant use artificial
birth control (condoms, iud, tubal ligation, hormone-based
pills, etc)  57% of Catholic voters support the bc mandate in
Obamacare  The Catholic process of excommunication is not a
lifetime ban from the church, but rather, a ban on taking holy
communion until repenting and giving up the behavior leading to
excommunication.  The church recently forbid an entire family
from taking communion based on something a teenager in the
family posted on facebook.   The data I linked is pretty common
knowledge.  It was reported in every major news source in the
country.  The Vatican has a public relations and media
department to rival any other country or major corporation, so
it is impossible for it to not be aware of