Excommunication in the Catholic Church
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title:
Excommunication in the Catholic Church
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In the canon law of the Catholic Church, excommunication is a form of censure. In the formal sense of the term, excommunication includes being barred not only from the sacraments but also from the fellowship of Christian baptism. The principal and severest censure, excommunication presupposes guilt; and being the most serious penalty that the Catholic Church can inflict, it supposes a grave offense. The excommunicated person is considered by Catholic ecclesiastical authority as an exile from the
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Catholic practice
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excommunication_in_the_Catholic_Church
date created:
2010-08-17T10:03:58Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T17:14:31Z
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