Excommunication

Excommunication, which is such a power in the hands of Rome, is merely a subterfuge and substitute for the degradation of "outcasts," and pariahs, instituted by the Brahman priests to terrify the disobedient and retain their power.

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This part of the Power of the Keyes, by which men were thrust out from the Kingdome of God, is that which is called Excommunication; and to excommunicate, is in the Originall, Aposunagogon Poiein,

Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

Hitherto hath been shewn what the Pastors of the Church are; what are the points of their Commission (as that they were to Preach, to Teach, to Baptize, to be Presidents in their severall Congregations;) what is Ecclesiasticall Censure, viz. Excommunication, that is to say, in those places where Christianity was forbidden by the Civill Laws,

Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

But herein they difFer, thaty firft place pecuharly bdongcth iopfeaching, which the Minifters of the wordc do execute: this later place to the difci - plme of Excommunication, which is committed to the Church.

The institution of christian religion 1578

(that was then called Excommunication,) not as being Infidels, but as being disobedient: And this was the first knot upon their Liberty.

Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

"Excommunication" actually means something in the Catholic Church.

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"Excommunication" is the favorite penalty-it is threatened at every turn.

Christian Science Mark Twain 1872

May the terrible Excommunication of Joshua Ben Nun, and the Excommunication which is described in the Book of Kol Bo, and all the excommunications, damnations and bands, and all the curses of the Holy Torah, fall upon their heads the Hassidim and upon any one who disobeys the following decree: No one shall befriend them or assist them or stand within four cubits of them; most important, no one shall even look at the Wicked One, the High Priest of their Sect meaning the Hassidic Rebbe, who serves a false god.

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Excommunication that, it should be noted, has always only covered the consecrating bishops (Lefebvre and De Castro Mayer, both long gone) and the four consecrated, but never the Lefebvrist priests nor the faithful.

Rumour Watch: Lifting of Excommunication of SSPX Bishops in the Next Days? [UPDATED] 2009

Roman Catholic Church: Excommunication for all who supported 9-year old rape victim's abortion - Feministing

Roman Catholic Church: Excommunication for all who supported 9-year old rape victim's abortion - Feministing 2009