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  • While poor excommunicated Miss Tox, who, if she were a fawner and toad – eater, was at least an honest and a constant one, and had ever borne a faithful friendship towards her impeacher and had been truly absorbed and swallowed up in devotion to the magnificence of Mr Dombey and Son
  • Innocent's interdict forbade all ceremonies save baptism of infants and confessions for the dying: it operated from 1208 and John was excommunicated in 1209.
  • The Constitution of Martin V, "Ad evitanda scandala", permits the excommunicated known as tolerati (tolerated) to take part in an election, but exception may be taken to them, and their exclusion must follow; if, after such exception, they cast a vote, it must be considered null. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
  • Hereby the community or whole body of the faithful, even to the meanest member, are vested from Christ with full power and authority actually to discharge and execute all acts of order and jurisdiction without exception: e.g. To preach the word authoritatively, dispense the sacraments, ordain their officers, admonish offenders, excommunicate the obstinate and incorrigible, and absolve the penitent. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
  • Paschall, that bicause he permitted the emperour to inuest bishops, and did not therefore excommunicate him, king Henrie threatened, that without doubt he would resume the inuestitures into his hands, thinking to hold them in quiet as well as he; and therefore besought him to consider what his wisedome had to doo therein with spéed, least that building which he had well erected, should vtterlie decaie, & fall againe into irrecouerable ruine. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I.
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  • If any man shall fall by occasion, to restore such a one with the spirit of meekness, by all fair means, gentle admonitions; but if that will not take place, Post unam et alteram admonitionem haereticum devita, he must be excommunicate, as Anatomy of Melancholy
  • This is it that the faithful stood in fear of, as long as they stood excommunicate, that is to say, in an estate wherein their sins were not forgiven. Leviathan
  • For she bids us commit to the earth the corpses of all who die not "unbaptized," "excommunicate," or wilful suicides, and who are willing to lie in our consecrated ground; giving thanks to God that our dear brother has been delivered from the miseries of this sinful world, and in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life. Westminster Sermons with a Preface
  • Eventually, he was excommunicated along with his mentor.
  • Since 1570 when the Pope excommunicated Elizabeth I, Catholics in the country had faced an increase in persecution and were left with little option but to conceal their faith.
  • Lane, a somewhat disreputable character, did not turn up to defend himself, and was excommunicated.
  • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Brigham Young University has yanked the diploma of a man who created a calendar featuring shirtless Mormon missionaries and was later excommunicated from the church. Ex-Mormon calendar-maker has BYU diploma yanked
  • And lastly he has been excommunicated from the Cherokee nation for fraud. Heroes or Villains?
  • Ten years after his consecration he was delated for heresy by an ecclesiastical court, and subsequently excommunicated from the Anglican Church altogether.
  • One of the tactics that has been used by some elements of the official structures of American Jewish organizations has been to attempt to "excommunicate" some critics of Israel by calling them "self-hating Jews" or "enablers of anti-Semitism. Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Renewing Jewish Culture or Excommunicating Jewish Thinkers?
  • One influential local bishop warned that women who sought abortion would be excommunicated.
  • Their church tells them it's wrong and, in fact, excommunicated Green years ago.
  • In 1457, after years of broken promises to return the cloth to the canons of Lirey and later to compensate them for its loss, Margaret was excommunicated.
  • They misread the situation and found themselves, along with others who did so, excommunicated by the rest of the world.
  • On air, Colbert has chided the pope as an "ecu-menace" for his outreach to other faiths, referred to non-Catholics as "heathens and the excommunicated" and calls those who believe in evolution "monkey men. The Quiet Faith Behind Colbert's Right-Wing Funnyman
  • After all, the clergy were keepers of public conscience - it was their duty to restrain avarice, sanctify poverty and excommunicate kings if they chose.
  • I see in the news article that the creator of these calendars not only was excommunicated from the LDS church, but that Brigham Young University withheld the diploma that he had earned. Is this funny? « Dating Jesus
  • The issue was resolved only in 1188, and in the intervening decade William was excommunicated and his kingdom placed under an interdict, while numerous appeals were made to Rome.
  • The findings of the inquiry were couched in virulent terms, accusing Graham of being a heretic, falsifier, person of irregular life, blasphemer, and excommunicate.
  • It was ordered that "no tenant-in-chief of the king, no officer of his household, or of his demesne, should be excommunicated, or his lands put under an interdict, until application had been made to the king, or in his absence to the grand justiciary, who ought to take care that what belongs to the king's courts shall be there determined, and what belongs to the ecclesiastical courts shall be determined in them. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante)
  • Their church tells them it's wrong and, in fact, excommunicated Green years ago.
  • One reason I'm grateful for bishops is that, if it were left up to laypeople, there would be nobody in the whole length and breadth of the Catholic communion who was not excommunicate.
  • In 1979, feminist Sonia Johnson was formally excommunicated by the Mormon Church because of her outspoken support for the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.
  • He was excommunicated from the church.
  • The Constitutions of Clarendon expressly forbade any oath about future conduct being required from an excommunicate.
  • The Pope excommunicated king and cabinet, and these repeated ecclesiastical censures muzzled any patriotic stirrings among the clergy.
  • When Colmcille is excommunicated for taking up arms, he sails to Iona, which is when Ireland began exporting its monastic tradition. Saints, censors and satire
  • In 1570 the Pope excommunicated Henry's daughter, Queen Elizabeth I, for what was by then called her ‘Protestantism’.
  • The Church reacted to this stance with characteristic fury, threatening to excommunicate the president.
  • The church excommunicated people who said that the earth revolved around the sun.
  • Adventurous young men tried their swords in the East, banished men there sought to recover their fame, the excommunicate strove to win pardon by his sword, or the forgiven to expiate his past crime; and, besides these irregular aids, the two military and monastic orders of Templars and Hospitallers were constantly fed by supplies of young nobles trained to arms and discipline in the numerous commanderies and preceptories scattered throughout the West. Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II
  • The Chinese Christians, therefore, practically excommunicate themselves from their own clan.
  • Last month, Benedict met with the head of the Society of St Pius X, the schismatic traditionalist movement whose leaders were excommunicated under Pope John Paul II.
  • The Chinese Christians, therefore, practically excommunicate themselves from their own clan.
  • Quixote, "Remember that you stand excommunicated for having laid violent hands on a holy thing, juxta illud, si quis, suadente diabolo. Don Quixote
  • And further a certaine booke intituled Eulogium declareth, that the sayd Limpoldus duke of Austrich fell in displeasure with the bishop of Rome and died excommunicate the next yeere after, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • All things being equal, I am automatically excommunicated according to the provision of Can. 1364, § 1, provided that the presaumptions of knowledge of the law and penalty (Can 15, § 2) and imputability (Can. 1321, § 3) are not rebutted in the external forum: John Kerry, Excommunicated?
  • • Sarah Barlow Draper, 37, who was reassigned to a different man after her former husband, Dan Barlow, was excommunicated from the church. Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, 5 others indicted
  • The suspension of Roger from office and the restoration of the excommunicate status of Gilbert Foliot and Jocelin of Salisbury would derail that plan.
  • No papal bull or brief, no papal legate might be received without royal approval, and no tenant-in-chief or royal officer could be excommunicated without royal permission. B. The British Isles
  • It was by virtue of this power that English John, that great landlord, surnamed Lackland, by declaring himself the liegeman of Pope Innocent III., and placing his kingdom under submission, delivered the souls of his parents, who had been excommunicated: “Pro mortuo excommunico, pro quo supplicant consanguinei.” A Philosophical Dictionary
  • He forever excommunicates and accurses every one who should dare violate that great charter of Anglo-Saxon freedom!
  • The pope excommunicated John and put England under a Church law that stated that no christening or marriage would be legal until the time the pope said that they would be.
  • The church excommunicated people who said that the earth revolved around the sun.
  • It is time to "excommunicate" those who tarnish the reputation of the GOP with infidelity, scandal, and lawbreaking actions. Johnston says Palin lost his vote
  • She was excommunicated by Pius V, who forbade her Catholic subjects to obey her and acted as a standing invitation to European Catholic powers to depose her.
  • They believed vampires to be the undead corpses of witches, suicides and folk who had been excommunicated by the Church.
  • Lefebvre - former head of the Holy Ghost fathers - was excommunicated in 1988 when he presided at the episcopal ordination of four priests, in defiance of a directive from Rome.
  • Be that as it may, among those excommunicated for nonorthodox practices are both Ron and Dan Lafferty. January 2005
  • In March 1638, after a heresy trial, the clergy excommunicated her.
  • They had suffered severe persecution since 1570, when the Pope had excommunicated Elizabeth, releasing her subjects from their allegiance to her.
  • What really got my attention, though, is that he was excommunicated not once, but twice, for refusing to submit to Papal March 1638, after a heresy trial, the clergy excommunicated her.
  • Athanasius, but had the impudence to "excommunicate" Pope Julius himself. Saint Athanasius The Father of Orthodoxy
  • Now true as all this is, I never think myself impowered to excommunicate thereupon either the post-chaise, or its driver — nor do I take it into my head to swear by the living The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
  • They were, inevitably, deposed from office, expelled from the order, and excommunicated - so becoming, ironically, apostates themselves.
  • Blackmore lost a large portion of his workforce when he was excommunicated from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Accused polygamist looking for legal aid from B.C.
  • The best known inside the church was the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, a highly traditional French cleric who took his differences with Rome into open schism and was excommunicated, along with the four men he dared to "ordain" as bishops, in the year of our lord 1970. The Pope’s Denial Problem
  • They wouldn't use terms like 'excommunicate' and 'anathema', of course. Proudly apostate, that's me
  • Michael Angelo might say to Raphael, your envy has only induced you to study and execute still better than I do; you have not depreciated me, you have not caballed against me before the pope, you have not endeavored to get me excommunicated for placing in my picture of the Last Judgment one-eyed and lame persons in paradise, and pampered cardinals with beautiful women perfectly naked in hell! A Philosophical Dictionary
  • Only recently has the Catholic Church recognized that the earth revolves around the sun; and Judaism forgave the philosopher Spinoza, who was excommunicated from the Jewish community in Amsterdam because he believed that god was everywhere in nature; indeed god was nature and vice versa. Saul Friedman: Let's Hear It For the Atheists
  • The answer may have something to do with the intervening contretemps over the Rosenbergs: It's harder to feel loyal to a movement when large segments of it are already attempting to excommunicate you.
  • In 1457, after years of broken promises to return the cloth to the canons of Lirey and later to compensate them for its loss, Margaret was excommunicated.
  • Yes, her adoring base will support her no matter what, but she cannot win a national office outside Alaska (and maybe not even there as even AK Republicans seem fed up with her), she HAS to draw major support from moderate Republicans (the few who haven't been excommunicated from the party yet) and independents. Palin defense fund may be unethical, investigator says
  • Mormons who have been excommunicated, as Frank Curtis had been, may work through a period of repentance that ultimately leads to rebaptism and, once again, a clean slate. The Sins of Brother Curtis
  • In 1208, the year the pope launched a brutal crusade upon the heretics of Albi in the south of France, he placed King John under interdict, and in the following year excommunicated him and his kingdom.
  • The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner
  • CANON LIX: If any Bishop or Presbyter fails to supply necessities when any of the clergy is in want, let him be excommunicated.
  • Matters came to a head in 1054 when the two Churches, through their official representatives, excommunicated and anathematized (formally denounced) each other.
  • Your Excellency, the words "excommunicate", and "mortal sin" come to mind ... Latest Articles
  • Beck had turned away in wrath from the table, and advancing with a magisterial step to the door, he threw it open; as if he thought, that longer to breathe the same air with the person he had excommunicated, would infect him with his own curses. The Scottish Chiefs
  • Even worse for John was the fact that the pope excommunicated him in 1209.
  • He left for France and then Germany, where he was excommunicated by the Lutheran Church, and returned to Italy in the mistaken belief that it would be safe to do so.
  • In September 1871, Bishop Shiel returned from Rome and excommunicated her for alleged insubordination.
  • Joining the women who have stepped forward to be ordained as Roman Catholic Women Priests and been summarily castigated and excommunicated, the latest victim of the Church's strong-armed resistance to any effort toward women's equality in the Church is internationally beloved and regarded Father Roy Bourgeois. Angela Bonavoglia: At Easter, Church Expels Women's Advocate, Keeps Pedophiles In The Fold
  • The screeching metal sounded like innocent angels shrieking and crying from being excommunicated from the riches and comforts of their heaven.
  • When Gregory heard that Frederick had gone on Crusade anyway, he promptly excommunicated the Emperor a second time, for setting out without having received absolution for the first sentence.
  • They were, inevitably, deposed from office, expelled from the order, and excommunicated - so becoming, ironically, apostates themselves.
  • He supported the king against Thomas Becket, who excommunicated him in 1166 and again in 1169 as ‘a promoter of royal tyranny’.
  • One influential local bishop warned that women who sought abortion would be excommunicated.
  • The Chinese Christians, therefore, practically excommunicate themselves from their own clan.
  • The Bishop of _Ravenna_, the Metropolis of _Flaminia_ and _Æmilia_, was also subject to the Pope: for _Zosimus_, A.C. 417, excommunicated some of the Presbyters of that Church, and wrote a commonitory Epistle about them to the Clergy of that Church as a branch of the _Roman_ Church: _In sua_, saith he, _hoc est, in Ecclesia nostra Romana_. Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John
  • This might be funny, if it weren't for the fact that 1) the catholic church has done nothing to those accused of paedophilia, and has gone so far as to shield the abusers, and 2) they probably would "excommunicate" the women that become "priests"!!! AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • The American press sometimes talked about it as a holy war, but the Fenians were excommunicated from the Catholic Church. Matthew Yglesias » Supporting George Mitchell
  • The few exceptions to this rule — Bruce Bartlett and Richard Posner, the authors of two bravely dissident books, come to mind — find themselves excommunicated from the conservative movement. Matthew Yglesias » Democratic Presidents’ Base Problem
  • They appointed rival bishops, collected double taxes, issued conflicting penances, and excommunicated one another's supporters.
  • Any that fought against him would be automatically excommunicate.
  • A Puritan New England congregation even excommunicated a man who neglected the sexual aspect of his relationship with his wife!
  • William was excommunicated in 1619 and Jacob in 1634, although he had already refused to kneel at communion in 1627.
  • Bulls, and by no means the emoluments accruing to the recipient of the favour or benefice conferred by the Bull, and declares that whoever shall charge more than the tax fixed by him shall be suspended for six months from office, and upon a second violation of the law, shall be deprived of it altogether, and if the delinquent be an abbreviator, he shall be excommunicated. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
  • John, 9, etc. That a man be liable to excommunication, there be many conditions requisite; as first, that he be a member of some commonalty, that is to say, of some lawful assembly, that is to say, of some Christian Church that hath power to judge of the cause for which he is to be excommunicated. Leviathan
  • About the only thing that excommunicates him from leftism is raging homophobia. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Disbarment of Fred Phelps
  • In 1310 the excommunicate Bruce secured the support of the Scottish clergy.
  • The doge, senate, and government of Venice were then excommunicated and the entire Republic placed under interdict.
  • This difference was sort of the last in a long line of differences in practice and belief, and pope and patriarch excommunicated one another.
  • That a man be liable to excommunication, there be many conditions requisite; as first, that he be a member of some commonalty, that is to say, of some lawful assembly, that is to say, of some Christian Church that hath power to judge of the cause for which he is to be excommunicated. Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill
  • I sort of hope that Bp Gumbleton defies Bp Sample, is then deposed and excommunicated by Rome (however that's done, "canonically" of course). Stand Firm
  • Eventually he was excommunicated for arguing with the Pope and for emphasising that his fellow Franciscans had made vows of poverty.
  • The Vatican has excommunicated no world leader since 1962 when Pope John XXIII excommunicated Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
  • The issue was resolved only in 1188, and in the intervening decade William was excommunicated and his kingdom placed under an interdict, while numerous appeals were made to Rome.
  • Tomorrow, you might be excommunicated, or disfellowshipped, or maybe nothing will happen. The Top Five Reasons Why I’m Not Turning in a Letter of Resignation to the Church. | Mind on Fire
  • If Robin Hood had tried pulling a bait and switch scam like that, I think Friar Tuck would have excommunicated him.
  • Elizabeth was excommunicated by Pope Pius V in 1570.
  • When those within a community try to "excommunicate" and dishonor truth-tellers, it is our obligation and responsibility to speak out vehemently on their behalf and on behalf of the truth they bring. MRZine.org
  • The Modernist clergyman who had led the revolt, found himself defrocked and excommunicated.

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