Excommunication
EXCOMMUNICATION. To excommunicate means "to cut off from communion" or "to exclude from fellowship in a community." In a Christian setting, the term excommu...
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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 conside...
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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 doz...
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ROME, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Excommunicated African Archbishop
Emmanuel Milingo took his campaign for a married priesthood to
the Pope's backyard on Thursday at a raucous book presentation
where suppo...
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Six Catholic nuns have been excommunicated for heresy after refusing to give up membership in a Canadian sect whose founder claims to be possessed by the Virgin Mary, the Diocese of Little Rock ann...
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Rome (dpa) - A former archbishop and Vatican official returned
Thursday to Rome vowing to continue consecrating married men as
bishops - a move which led to his ejection fro...
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Pope Benedict XVI began his first papal trip to Latin America stressing church opposition to abortion Wednesday, suggesting that Catholic politicians in Mexico had excommunicated themselves by lega...
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Rome/Sao Paulo (dpa) - Pope Benedict XVI sparked controversy
aboard the plane taking him to Brazil on Wednesday by appearing to
back automatic excommunication for politician...
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It took two years for Pope Benedict XVI to give his first full-fledged news conference. And when he finally held one on Wednesday, he caused a stir with his comments on abortion.Benedict stood befo...
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Pope Benedict XVI caused such a stir with his comments on the excommunication of lawmakers who vote in favor of legalizing abortion that the Vatican released a transcript Thursday changing what he ...
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