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    excommunication
    /ˌɛkskəˌmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃn/

    noun

    • 1. the action of officially excluding someone from participation in the sacraments and services of the Christian Church: "he appealed against the papal sentence of excommunication"

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  2. 5 days ago · Excommunication. Briefly, excommunication can be defined as the most serious penalty a baptized person can incur, which consists of being placed outside the communion of the faithful of the Catholic Church and denied access to the sacraments.

  3. 1 day ago · First, canon lawyer John M. Huels offers the following definition of excommunication: A censure that forbids a person from having any ministerial participation in the celebration of the liturgy; receiving the sacraments; discharging any ecclesiastical offices, ministries, or function, and placing acts of governance.

  4. 4 days ago · Excommunication is a form of ecclesiastical censure that is meant to correct behavior by excluding a person from participating in the sacraments and the communal life of the Church. Wikimedia Creative Commons. The Vatican announced the excommunication of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the former ambassador of the church to the United States.

  5. 4 days ago · Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, former apostolic nuncio to the United States of America, has incurred excommunication latae sententiae for having abandoned communion with the Bishop of Rome and the Catholic Church.

  6. 5 days ago · But key aspects of Father Rupnik’s excommunicable offense, involving the novice and the confessional, also remain in play — including whether sufficient time elapsed between the imposition of the excommunication and its subsequent lifting for authentic repentance and reparation to have taken place.

  7. 4 days ago · English translation of Vigano's excommunication decree - Where Peter Is. Written by Mike Lewis. Moments ago, the newly-excommunicated Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano published a pdf of his excommunication decree. This 11-page document — interestingly the same length as his August 2018 ‘testimony’ that began this saga — is in Italian and ...

  8. 3 days ago · Catholic authorities in Spain excommunicate, expel renegade nuns. Jun 24, 2024. By Walter Sánchez Silva. The Catholic Church in Spain has decreed the excommunication and expulsion from ...