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Excommunication Summary
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EXCOMMUNICATION. To excommunicate means "to cut off from communion" or "to exclude from fellowship in a community." In a Christian setting, the term excommunication also applies to exclusion from Holy Communion, or the...
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Excommunication
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Form of censure by which a member of a religious body is excluded from the congregation of believers and from the rites of the church. Excommunication has been used in various religions, notably Christianity, as a punishment for grave offenses such as...
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Excommunication is a religious censure used to deprive or suspend membership in a religious community. The word literally means putting [someone] out of communion. In some churches, excommunication includes spiritual condemnation of the member or group....


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The Boston Globe
Excommunications ordered in Nebraska
05/16/1996: 360 words, approx. 1 pages
LINCOLN, Neb. -- Perhaps hundreds of Roman Catholics in the Diocese of Lincoln can consider themselves excommunicated as of yesterday. Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz ordered Catholics to quit 12 proscribed groups, including Planned Parenthood, Call to Action and Catholics for a Free Choice, by...
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Catholic Insight
Catholics face excommunication.
05/01/1996: 404 words, approx. 1 pages
Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska, after extensive consulting over many months, has warned church members who retain membership in abortion-rights, right-to-die, and various other groups, that they will be excommunicated. They have until May 15 to resign from them. "Membership in these...
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AP News
Vatican upholds Neb. excommunications
12/8/2006: 378 words, approx. 1 pages
A Vatican official has upheld the 1996 mass excommunication of perhaps hundreds of people in the Lincoln Diocese affiliated with a church reform group and 10 other organizations the diocese considers anti-Catholic.A Nov. 24 letter to Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz in Lincoln from Cardinal Giovanni Battista...
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Excommunicated cleric defies Vatican
12/10/2006: 252 words, approx. 1 pages
An excommunicated Roman Catholic archbishop continued to defy the Vatican when he installed two married priests as bishops on Sunday.In front of a sea of reporters and photographers and several dozen congregants, Raymond A. Grosswirth of Rochester, N.Y., and Dominic Riccio, of the Newark Archdiocese,...
 


 

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