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  • Two years later he received an order of excommunication and ignored that too in that he continued to preach.
  • Now Gregory XIV had enacted the penalty of excommunication for abortion of a "quickened" child but the present law makes no such distinction, and therefore it must be differently understood. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
  • The threat that had made Henry compromise - an interdict over England and his continental lands together with a personal excommunication - was a blunt weapon.
  • In 1278 Palmerio Berardi, canon and obedientiary, is responsible for executing the bishop's and chapter's warning of excommunication.
  • Its excommunication banished the unfaithful and unbelieving to the horror of outer darkness forever.
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  • The Franciscans gave him no encouragement to remain; and the provincial threatened him with excommunication if he persisted.
  • On the question of the present canonical status of the four bishops, Ferrara argues that it was only ever Archbishop Lefevbre who was suspended a divinis and that the only penalty imposed on the four bishops was excommunication. Archive 2009-01-01
  • Each cardinal will be required to take solemn oaths not to disclose any of their discussions on the pain of excommunication from the Church.
  • The Vatican stressed that the pope had lifted the excommunication of Williamson and three other traditionalist bishops '' benevolently '' as a result of repeated requests by the society to which the bishops belong as a precursor to bringing the breakaway group back to the Church. Clerical Whispers
  • The excommunication was interpreted as an "imprecation" that cursed all Freemasons and doomed them to perdition. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
  • Archbishop Raymond Burke, my favorite American hierarch, has issued the usual threat of excommunication, and for all I know has already carried it out. Archive 2007-11-01
  • Excommunication also remained out of the question because much of the Church membership stood in awe of these exploits.
  • Milingo bucked the Vatican again in September, when he ordained four married American men as bishops — an act that meant automatic excommunication. Different popes a reflection of different periods
  • On August 10, 1979, Curcio responded from jail with an excommunication both of the "workerist" Brigades and of Toni Negri. Terror in Italy: An Exchange
  • Benedict XVI explains that the revocation of the excommunication is personal, concerns the four bishops, and does not imply the canonical recognition of the Fraternity of Saint Pius X which can take place only after a doctrinal realignment of the Fraternity, including the acceptance of Vatican II and the Magisterium of the post-conciliar Popes. Advance Report on the Papal Letter about the Lifting of the SSPX Excommunications
  • We have taken to the custom of condemning trigamists to five years excommunication not on the ground of any canon but only on the ground of usage followed by those who have preceded us.
  • Excommunication would mean the church is getting rid of me, but when a Catholic decides to leave, it's called apostasy.
  • After the excommunication of Elizabeth I in 1570, the purpose of legislation changed from securing royal supremacy to defeating the new recusant missionary campaign.
  • Philip was unwilling to face excommunication, for that could easily give his enemies within France the excuse they needed to foment open rebellion.
  • 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
  • Pius V published the bull of excommunication of Elizabeth in 1570 to aid the Rebellion of the Northern Earls, but deliberately without informing Philip first.
  • Andrea Tornielli writes that within the next weeks, Pope Benedict XVI will issue a motu proprio attaching the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, as anticipated in his letter to the bishops on the lifting of the excommunications of the bishops consecrated by Archbishop Lefebvre. Rumour Watch: Motu Proprio on the Reorganisation of Ecclesia Dei
  • No canonical or civil penalties, much less automatic excommunication, are attached to its violation.
  • The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life.
  • 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
  • There is a By-law which forbids Members to practice hypnotism; the penalty is excommunication.
  • Pronouncements of church (government, corporate) ana-thema,  denunciation and excommunication are appropriate. Materials sought for Biography of Irish Rockers, "The Naked Rowdies"
  • Grey's anatomical studies follow the precedent set by Michelangelo, who risked excommunication to secretly study anatomy in a morgue.
  • They were declared vassals of the empire; but the emperor, Henry III., discontented with these feudatory conquerors, engaged Leo IX. to launch the excommunication at the head of an army of Germans. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • One reason I see for this occurrence is the libtards who want to ban guns and hunting have us running scared and the powers-that-be in the shooting community have developed this "cult of safety" (to show our "worthiness" to keep the hunting/shooting tradition) whereby every person that makes a mistake, no matter the degree, deserves excommunication from our church/religion. Illinois Hunter Killed By Friend In Bowhunting Accident
  • Luther was ordered to recant on the threat of excommunication.
  • Under today's rules, however, excommunication is the new order of the day. Jerry Kremer: Shunning: The New GOP Mantra
  • Finally, in 1258 a bungled deal with the Papacy threatened Henry with excommunication.
  • Like so much else in Videssian life, anathematizing and excommunication had a ceremony all their own. Bridge of the Separator
  • His condemnation of violence and wealth, of government repression and church hypocrisy, brought him administrative pinpricks and excommunication.
  • Catholics are forbidden to join the Freemasons under pain of excommunication.
  • The cardinals on Tuesday filed into the chapel, chanting a Latin hymn to ask for divine guidance and swearing a solemn oath never to reveal the secrets of their deliberations on pain of excommunication.
  • Excommunication threatened the eternal life of heretics and schismatics, while the Holy Inquisition concentrated the minds of defiant Catholics by handing them over to the civil power for a spot of torture or burning.
  • The handling of the Regensburg address and of the recent lifting of the excommunication from the SSPX bishops was unsatisfactory. Pope Benedict XVI, the ecclesiastically incorrect" pontiff
  • One reason I see for this occurrence is the libtards who want to ban guns and hunting have us running scared and the powers-that-be in the shooting community have developed this "cult of safety" (to show our "worthiness" to keep the hunting/shooting tradition) whereby every person that makes a mistake, no matter the degree, deserves excommunication from our church/religion. Illinois Hunter Killed By Friend In Bowhunting Accident
  • The Vatican began its crusade to defrock Father Bourgeois in November of 2008 with the threat of excommunication. Michele Somerville: A Frock Does Not A Priest Make
  • If he continued to resist the church's demands, church officials would be forced to consider a range of sanctions, the most serious of which would be excommunication.
  • The threat of excommunication hangs over anyone tempted to break the vow of silence.
  • During the closing weeks of the campaign, a pastoral letter was read from pulpits in Catholic churches repeating the ominous suggestion of excommunication.
  • It was no longer a question of pink slips, trials, excommunications, since the aborted scandal of Parsifal: no one had lost face - especially not the proud and vindicative director - but Wolfgang Wagner had won.
  • The pope and the sacred college had never been dazzled by his specious professions; they were justly offended by the insolence of his conduct; a cardinal legate was sent to Italy, and after some fruitless treaty, and two personal interviews, he fulminated a bull of excommunication, in which the tribune is degraded from his office, and branded with the guilt of rebellion, sacrilege, and heresy. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Using so-called "artifical" contraception, engaging in heresy and being remarried after divorce can all lead to automatic self-excommunication -- especially if one receives the Sacrament of the Eucharist while engaging in such excommunication-worthy conduct. Michele Somerville: Roy Bourgeois Detained At The Vatican For The Crime Of Primacy Of Conscience
  • The excommunication which he pronounced against his erring nephews was probably occasioned as much by the political grievances of his family as by righteous indignation at the despite done to the Council.
  • Norwich, thrée prelats highlie at that present in the kings fauour, to further these grants; namelie, that such as slue any préest or spirituall person might haue the law for it: where before, there was no punishment for a season vsed against such offendors but onelie excommunication. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second
  • Dishonest members are to be admonished; if they continue in dishonest practices, excommunication follows.
  • At last, their dispute came near to an open declaration of hostilities, the incensed episcopalian bestowing on the recusants the whole thunders of the commination, and receiving from them, in return, the denunciations of a Calvinistic excommunication. Old Mortality
  • That fills the Soul with unavailing ruth. admin Uncategorized ecclesiastical sonnets iv druidical excommunication, ira lightman, william wordsworth Ira Lightman reads “Ecclesiastical Sonnets, IV. Druidical Excommunication” by William Wordsworth
  • Only the propagators have to be sought in the arts faculty in Paris: on pain of excommunication, they are prohibited to dogmatize, disseminate, or sustain in any way Condemnation of 1277
  • In this way, from the beginning of the thirteenth century, although not expressly so stated in the decretals, the term censure became the equivalent of a certain class of ecclesiastical penalties, i.e., interdict, suspension, and excommunication. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
  • The Church reciprocated by forbidding membership in the Masons under pain of excommunication.
  • The church reacted to them ‘with interdict, excommunication, and anathema.’
  • Michelangelo risked excommunication to secretly study anatomy in a morgue.
  • This was again highlighted in the recent letter of the Holy Father to the bishops of the world on the matter of the revocation of the excommunications of the four bishops of the Society of Saint Pius X. Reform in Continuity: Re-approaching the Second Vatican Council
  • The general purport of the Constitutions, when they were at last made known, was to transfer certain causes -- for example, those regarding presentations to benefices -- from the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical to that of the King's Courts, to restrain appeals to Rome, to prevent the excommunication of the king's officers and great vassals, and to sanction the king's appropriation of the revenues of bishoprics and abbacies. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
  • The disagreement as to whether the original "excommunications" of the bishops of SSPX were valid is for Rome to decide not the episcopacy, not individual priests and not for semi-informed laymen. what needs to happen now is the acrimony, bile and abuse of members of the Society of St. Pius 10th needs to stop now, RIGHT NOW. They need to be re-incardinated asap. The validity of the original SSPX excommunications...
  • First, the Churchmen were conspicuous by their absence; and secondly, all the old grey-headed counsellors, who had been the pride and ornament of the reigns of Edmund and Edred, were not seen; for, after the rumour of their marriage had reached Odo, he had pronounced the sentence of the lesser excommunication upon them, severing them from the sacraments; and this was felt by the old counsellors of Edred to be a most serious stigma, yet one which they could not call undeserved: hence they deserted the court. Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune
  • Coerciveness has long been used for social control in rituals such as union blackballing, college hazing, excommunication and corporal punishment.
  • But, the Holy Father made clear today that the lifting of the excommunication is about one thing only: Church unity. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
  • The particular personal interdict, which is a real censure, affects individuals much in the same way as excommunication. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
  • One of the victims of the haircutting was a bishop who served on the committee that overturned the excommunications, according to court papers. News - latimes.com

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