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Excommunications pronounced or renewed since the constitution Apostolicae Sedis The Constitution "Romanus Pontifex" (August 28, 1873), besides other penalties, declares specially reserved... Excommunication specially reserved against the members of the "Catholic Italian Society for the
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See moreIn the canon law of the Catholic Church, excommunication (Lat. ex, out of, and communio or communicatio, communion, meaning exclusion from the communion), the principal and severest censure, is a penalty that excludes the
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See moreIn Latin Catholic canon law, excommunication is a rarely applied censure and thus a "medicinal penalty" intended to invite the person to change behaviour or attitude, repent, and return to full communion. It is not an "expiatory penalty" designed to make
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See moreExcommunication is either a jure (by law) or ab homine (by judicial act of man, i.e. by a judge). The first is provided by the law itself, which declares that whosoever shall have been guilty of a
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See moreApart from the rare cases in which excommunication is imposed for a fixed period and then ceases of itself, it is always removed by absolution. It is to be noted at once that, though the same word is used to designate the sacramental sentence by which sins
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See moreWhile excommunication ranks first among ecclesiastical censures, it existed long before any such classification arose. The penalty is biblical, and
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See moreIn the Latin Church, Canon Law describes two forms of excommunication. The first is sententiae ferendae. This is where the person excommunicated is subject to a canonical process or trial,
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See moreHistorically, no one can be subject to ecclesiastical censure unless they be baptized, delinquent, and contumacious. Baptism confers initial
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