Excommunicated

But the lines were clearly drawn, and those few liberal politicians who crossed the line to actually wrestle with these issues were swiftly excommunicated from the good graces of their tribe.

On one side, he assists families who claim to have witnessed miracles, and on the other he belongs to a trio of excommunicated priests who hunt the possessed down to exorcize them under their own terms: with Bibles, fire and shotguns.

The ‘rebel bishops’ were swiftly excommunicated by the Tewahedo Church, and across the country hundreds of thousands of people united in solidarity with the EOTC.

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò was declared guilty of schism and excommunicated on July 4. For anyone who has followed the archbishop’s public statements over the past few years, the decision was anything but a surprise.

Smyth and his wife, Anne, were formally excommunicated that year from their local church in Cape Town, South Africa, where they had worshipped since 2013.

The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) announced July 5 that it had declared former U.S Nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò to be guilty of “schism” and automatically excommunicated.

Biden supports abortion as a constitutional right, though the Catholic Church that abortion “constitutes a grave offense” and that a person who obtains an abortion is automatically excommunicated from the Catholic Church.

But it looks like being excommunicated from the inner circle does wonders for one’s ability to tell the truth.

In the 17th century, curiosity-driven researchers like Galileo had dared to put divine laws to the test and were excommunicated for their trouble.

What he discovered simply by looking through his not very powerful telescope was so earth-shaking that he was excommunicated by the church in 1633.

Several years later, in a 1999 article for titled "A Conservative No More," Ramesh Ponnuru excommunicated Buchanan from the conservative movement.

The majority of people that we help have told harrowing stories of being hunted down, of being excommunicated by their churches, their families, their communities, and so they’ve come to us really desperate.

The septuagenarian was reportedly excommunicated from the community following the ugly act that resulted in the birth of a baby boy.

Wonder if he was excommunicated also.

Cardinal Joseph Zen, the former Bishop of Hong Kong, accused the Vatican of “selling out” loyal Catholics after it emerged that a Holy See delegation asked two ‘underground’ bishops to move aside in favour of excommunicated Communist-backed prelates.

Former Aviation minister Femi Fani Kayode has asked that vice president Yemi Osinbajo should be ‘excommunicated from the church’.

Hader’s “gee-golly, I really messed up here” stance only serves the narrative that the privilege of being white in this country is to be quickly absolved of actions that would get other individuals excommunicated with the swiftness.

Additionally, government officials could not be excommunicated for acts committed in pursuance of their duties.

After this outstanding victory the council in Rome failed, but Pisa was excommunicated.

A majority of the French ignored the threat and attacked Zara, and were excommunicated by Innocent III, but soon were forgiven so as to continue the crusade.