excommunicate
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ex·com·mu·ni·cate
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v.
/ ˌekskəˈmyoōniˌkāt/ [tr.]
officially exclude (someone) from participation in the sacraments and services of the Christian Church.
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n.
/ ˌekskəˈmyoōniˌkit/
an excommunicated person.
DERIVATIVES:
ex·com·mu·ni·ca·tion
/ ˌekskəˌmyoōniˈkāshən/ n.
ex·com·mu·ni·ca·tive
/ -ˌkātiv/ adj.
ex·com·mu·ni·ca·tor
/ -ˌkātər/ n.
ex·com·mu·ni·ca·to·ry
/ -kəˌtôrē/ adj.
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Church law experts say excommunication of Chinese bishops may be mitigated by pressure
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 5/5/2006; ; 612 words
; ...may help their case if any formal excommunication process is launched, experts said...with them the automatic penalty of excommunication for the two men as well as the bishops...Navarro-Valls didn't use the word "excommunication" in his statement, he cited canon...
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Vatican upholds excommunication.(NATION)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 12/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Vatican has upheld the 1996 excommunication of Call to Action Nebraska...Bruskewitz. Bruskewitz's excommunication of the group, a local chapter...Nebraska, Brukewitz's 1996 excommunication included Catholic members...
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 "Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)")
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Excommunication of bishops might be averted, experts say; Role of Chinese government could be significant
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 5/6/2006; ; 442 words
; ...church law that called for automatic excommunication in condemning China for appointing...Navarro-Valls didn't use the word "excommunication" in his statement Thursday condemning...consent incur a "latae sententiae excommunication" - automatic excommunication. However...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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EXCOMMUNICATION: BY ANY NAME, IT'S DEVASTATING.(Perspective)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 8/5/1990; 700+ words
; ...suicide. Once almost forgotten, excommunication has been back in the news because...excommunicated - or threatened with excommunication - have been the director of a Corpus...excommunicate. For many, the threat of excommunication has simply lost its sting. For others...
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Pope lifts excommunications of 4 bishops
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 1/24/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...XVI has lifted the excommunications of four traditionalist...with the issue of the excommunication and the removal of the excommunication, Lombardi told AP...Mass. In lifting the excommunication decree, he answered...
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Neb. Catholics' Excommunication Deadline Passes
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 5/16/1996; ; 637 words
; ...for a Free Choice, by Wednesday or face excommunication, the church's severest penalty. Bruskewitz...in recent church history to threaten mass excommunication. Under excommunication, Catholics may attend Mass but are forbidden...
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Pope lifts excommunication of Holocaust-denying bishop. British cleric endorsed Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 1/25/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Headline: Pope lifts excommunication of Holocaust-denying...XVI has lifted the excommunications of four bishops...the lifting of the excommunication was not an affirmation...the lifting of the excommunications had nothing to do...decision to lift the excommunication decree. The pope...
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Priest threatened with excommunication. (Frank Cordaro of Lacona, IA held a forbidden mass for members at a Call to Action conference)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 7/18/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Lacona, Iowa, was threatened with excommunication after he celebrated a Mass in Lincoln...May. The conference marked the excommunication a year ago of Call to Action members...priestly ministries there under threat of excommunication. Thorburn wrote Cordaro on May 30...
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Ga. priest facing excommunication will appeal
News Wire article from: AP Online; 11/14/2008; ; 700+ words
; A Georgia priest facing excommunication for supporting the ordination...said Bourgeois. Bourgeois' excommunication likely would be automatic...the Rev. Federico Lombardi. Excommunication is the most severe penalty...
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US priest facing excommunication will appeal
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 11/14/2008; ; 700+ words
; A Georgia priest facing excommunication for supporting the ordination...said Bourgeois. Bourgeois' excommunication likely would be automatic...the Rev. Federico Lombardi. Excommunication is the most severe penalty...
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excommunication
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
excommunication. An ecclesiastical censure which...office or act of government. If the excommunication has been imposed or declared, some...Canons envisage the possibility of excommunication, but its use is now very rare.
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Excommunication
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Excommunication. A censure imposed by the Christian Church which deprives a person of the right to administer or receive the sacraments or to...
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Ḥerem
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
...x2018;ban’). Excommunication from the Jewish community...times, the first reference to excommunication is in Ezra 10. 8. In the period of the Talmud , four types of excommunication had developed: (i) nezifah...
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Saint Gregory VII
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...synods and issued decrees that forbade, under pain of excommunication, clerical marriage (and concubinage) and simony. Gregory...dispute with Gregory he was excommunicated (1076). The excommunication cost Henry much of his popularity, and in 1077 he humbled...
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Benedict XI
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...conciliate many of the enemies Boniface had made, chiefly Philip IV of France, whose excommunication he rescinded. However, he would not yield on the excommunication of Boniface's assaulters, Sciarra Colonna and Philip's emissary, Nogaret...
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