Excommunicate in a sentence

White supremacists excommunicate themselves from friends, family and society when they join an extremist group, McAleer explained.

Evidently Diotrephes is a pastor/elder, since he is able to excommunicate people at will.

Nikos Kazantzakis commemorative coin Many Orthodox Church clergy condemned Kazantzakis' work and a campaign was started to excommunicate him.

By 1209 the situation showed no signs of resolution, and Innocent threatened to excommunicate John if he did not acquiesce to Langton's appointment.

The Pope, however, announced that he would excommunicate anyone who attempted to do so, fearing that people might accidentally fall in and be drowned.

Mann, pg. 272 They refused to divorce, and Honorius was forced to excommunicate Fulk and his son-in-law and to impose an interdict upon their territories.

He remained excommunicate for twenty-six years until his death in 1106.

Cardinal Simon was ordered to excommunicate the King of France.

Trilogy is listed as "further reading" on excommunicate.

Under current law, an excommunicate is never vitandus.

Otherwise we shall excommunicate them and interdict within their territory all divine service except the baptism of infants and the administration of the last rites to the dying.

Suspicious of Gregory’s intent, they refused to obey the Pope, and threatened to excommunicate him, were he to excommunicate them, and even to depose him as Pope.

A synod of clerics and scholars threatened to excommunicate him for these deaths, but St. Brendan of Birr spoke on his behalf with the result that he was allowed to go into exile instead.

Unable to end the impasse Taddeo was horrified to hear the fathers of the Council solemnly depose and excommunicate the Emperor on 17 July, while absolving all his subjects from allegiance.

Leo at once announced that he would excommunicate the king of France and release his subjects from their allegiance unless Francis I laid down his arms and surrendered Parma and Piacenza to the Church.

In general, the Amish will excommunicate baptized members for failure to abide by their Ordnung (church rules) as it is interpreted by the local Bishop if certain repeat violations of the Ordnung occur.

Mann, pg. 275 Although Benedict tried to bolster morale by encouraging the defenders from the walls of the city, as well as threatening to excommunicate the emperor and his army, the Romans soon decided to capitulate.

He followed up with a bull that would excommunicate the king of France and put the interdict over France, and to depose the entire clergy of France, when in September 1303, a French delegation forcibly brought the pope to France.