@ Daphne
Eureka! Hypocrisy exists!!! What baffles me is that you who deem yourself so liberal should exert all this energy to pinpoint other people’s hypocrisy. If divorcees, cohabitating people, tax-evaders, corrupted, masturbators, adulters, people who swear etc etc stop participating in these para-liturgical events to heed you call for coherency then the churches would be empty. Perhaps it is this that you want after all.

By the way adultery is not just a sin/offence to Catholicism. The revulsion to it is something ingrained in the human psyche to such an extent that it is punishable even in primitive animist religions.

I’ve already said I don’t give a damn about her immortal soul. You’re the one who keeps bringing it up.

Ora pro nobis…..

Whether she has broken the law of God is not for us to decide.

[Daphne – I’m a lapsed Catholic, Manuel, but even I know what the Catholic rules are when it comes to adultery: it’s a mortal sin. Live in adultery, and you live in a state of mortal sin. So doing penance on the day of Our Lady of Sorrows is pretty pointless unless you’re going to give up the adultery.]

If she has broken the law of man as you seem convinces she has, then she should answer for it in secular tribunals. However even if she is found guilty therein, even were she to admit to it, guilt in front of God will be determined by God.

God only knows whether or not she was sincere in her Duluri devotions. The presumption of innocence applies even more forcefully here – is no far as human judgments are concerned. We’re somewhat unqualified to act as judges in that sort of tribunal.

You silly people who keep on referring to Daphne as a witch as though it is an insult.

Have you never watched Charmed (The good witches who go against all odds for the sake of good vs evil) or Bewitched (another good witch).

You are just a bunch of dumb wits.

Perhaps she thought he might start shouting F’GH*X Gonzi.

Leah “others practice their religion”. If you want to speak about religion, then I’ll use religious terminology. We’re talking about an adulteress and fornicator (make that a double adulteress) who walks behind the statue of Our Lady of Sorrows then promptly goes back home to carry on fornicating and committing adultery until next year’s procession, when she’ll repeat the whole thing again. Or perhaps we won’t have to wait that long – perhaps she’ll be walking in procession up to the Salib tal-Gholija this Friday, before or after the visits to Seven Churches.

What did Magistrate Herrera give up for Lent – fornication and adultery?

Beautiful.

Precisely. And it dovetails neatly with one particular religious commandment.

Here’s the point you’re missing:

if she’s apparently unafraid of divine retribution for breaking the laws of God, why would she hesitate to break those made by man?

Religion is not divorced from other aspects of reality.