What is excommunication? Excommunication is the Church’s most severe penalty imposed for particularly grave sins. Through baptism, a person is incorporated into the body of the Church …

Dec 10, 2008 · Excommunication is the action of the Christian church administered upon a Church member who has refused to repent of his sin and/or who has refused to recant of …

Dec 5, 2008 · The Bible uses the term, anathema, to mean separated from Christ. Catholic anathema means an person can't take communion or sacraments

Oct 31, 2016 · The Amish practice of shunning is the exaggeration and often abuse of the biblical principles of excommunication and church discipline.

For such a person to violate the secrecy of another person’s confession is a mortal sin and warrants “a just penalty, not excluding excommunication” (#1388.2). Moreover, a person who …

Aug 17, 2013 · What makes CARM right about what it teaches? CARM is only correct as far as we are in agreement with God’s Word, the Bible. The goal of CARM is to be as faithful to the …

Oct 18, 2023 · Is the Church of Rome today, reluctant to pronounce a person as being "excommunicated" from their religious sect of Roman Catholicism?

Since the decree “In Eminenti” of Pope Clement XII in 1738, Catholics have been forbidden to join the Masons, and until 1983, under pain of excommunication. (Please note that Freemasonry …

In addressing this question, we must first remember that the Sacrament of Holy Orders, like Baptism and Confirmation, is a character sacrament. Each character sacrament confers an …

Aug 1, 2025 · Both the Eastern Orthodox and the Roman Catholic Churches claim to have apostolic authority that has been passed down from the original apostles to them. Since the …