Explore: Excommunications

X condemned Luther's twenty-third proposition according to which "excommunications are merely external punishments, nor do they deprive a man of the common

forum internum any confessor can absolve from non-reserved excommunications; but excommunications that are reserved can only be remitted, except through indult

includes only excommunications acknowledged or imposed by a decree of the Pope or a bishop in communion with him. Latae sententiae excommunications, those that

suspended, though the SSPX always denied the validity of the excommunications. The excommunication was lifted in 2009 by Pope Benedict XVI. Born in Cantabria

or someone is being hated or avoided. The other refers to a formal excommunication by a church. These meanings come from the New Testament, where an anathema

followers in schism. On 24 January 2009, Pope Benedict XVI lifted the excommunications of the four bishops Lefebvre had consecrated in 1988, but the SSPX

The excommunication of Margaret McBride occurred with the sanctioning by the American religious sister Margaret McBride in November 2009 of an abortion

dispute with the king confiscating property and the archbishop issuing excommunications. King Henry II appointed his chancellor, Thomas Becket, as Archbishop

wal-Hijra (Arabic: التكفير والهجرة, translation: "Excommunication and Exodus", alternatively "excommunication and emigration" or "anathema and exile"), was

The Excommunication of Robert the Pious (French: L'Excommunication de Robert le Pieux) is an 1875 painting by Jean-Paul Laurens, held by the Musée d'Orsay