excommunication

How To Use excommunication In A Sentence

• Dishonest members are to be admonished; if they continue in dishonest practices, excommunication follows.
• 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.