EXCOMMUNICATION: BY ANY NAME, IT'S DEVASTATING.(Perspective)

Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) | August 5, 1990 | Copyright

Byline: Bill Marvel

E xcommunication. The old word still exerts a strange power in this new, skeptical age. Even among non-believers, it conjures up lurid images of arcane Latin rituals, of chanted anathemas, of sinners driven from the church into everlasting darkness.

The reality, say those who have experienced it, is broken families, shattered friendships, depression and even suicide.

Once almost forgotten, excommunication has been back in the news because lately it has become a potent weapon in the Catholic Church's fight against abortion. Among ...

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