According to him, the Church would excommunicateall Christians who frequented the theatre, were the number of offenders not so great.
I began to wonder if I could tell 'em to excommunicate me and be damned.
Moved by repeated supplications, Pius the Fifth at last decided to excommunicate the heretical daughter of Henry and Anne Boleyn.
To this the churchman replied that no respect ought to be had toward the Cardinal, for he was "an excommunicate person," condemned of schism, and dead in the eyes of the law.
That if a King at the Popes admonition, doe not purge his Kingdome of Haeresies, and being excommunicate for the same, doe not give satisfaction within a year, his Subjects are absolved of the bond of their obedience.
And thence it is that St. Paul calleth Excommunication, a delivery of the Excommunicate person to Satan.
For what is it for men toexcommunicate their lawful King, but to keep him from all places of Gods publique Service in his own Kingdom?
Excommunication therefore when it wanteth the assistance of the Civill Power, as it doth, when a Christian State, or Prince is Excommunicate by a forain Authority, is without effect; and consequently ought to be without terrour.
But to Excommunicate a man that held this foundation, that Jesus Was The Christ, for difference of opinion in other points, by which that Foundation was not destroyed, there appeareth no authority in the Scripture, nor example in the Apostles.
If a King at the Popes admonition, doe not purge his Kingdome of Haeretiques, and being Excommunicate for the same, make not satisfaction within a year, his subjects are absolved of their Obedience.
Or what is it, without Authority from the Civill Soveraign, to excommunicateany person, but to take from him his Lawfull Liberty, that is, to usurpe an unlawfull Power over their Brethren?
There is a sad story of one minister who, against his own conscience, was being compelled to excommunicate his own daughter, but fell dead in the pulpit whilst pronouncing the sentence.
Soon after this, proceedings were instituted to excommunicate Alexander Jaffray.
Fifth], that he was persuaded that no one could excommunicate him but the supreme pontiff.
Undismayed, Langton followed, declaring that he would excommunicate every one except the king who should take part in the attack, and John was obliged again to yield and to appoint a time for the court to try the case.
The interval between these two attempts at reconciliation Becket had used to excommunicate about thirty of his opponents in England, mostly churchmen, including the Bishops of London and Salisbury.
Langton refused to act at the king's request and excommunicate his enemies.
This might look as if the pope were about to take up the case in earnest and would proceed shortly to excommunicate the king himself.
Also, the baron wishes to urge the bishop not to excommunicate a fellow noble who is at issue with the prelate over some hunting rights.
Indeed about the same time pope Innocent, who before at the instant suit of king John had excommunicated the barons in generall, did now excommunicate them by name, and in particular, as these.
Sidenote: The archbishop menaceth to excommunicate those y^t assist the king.
After the death of Huss and Jerom, the pope, in conjunction with the council of Constance, ordered the Roman clergy every where, to excommunicate such as adopted their opinions, or commisserated their fate.
The project of raising an insurrection having failed, the inquisitors determined to excommunicate M.
The Pope says: I will excommunicate you, thrust you down to the abyss of hell.
Victor took it upon himself to excommunicate the Bishop of Ephesus and his fellow-officials for refusing to conform to the mode of celebrating Easter in the West (190).
If you do, in the name of Almighty God I excommunicate you and forbid you to confer orders or to celebrate mass.
He called a council, annulled the Magna Charta, issued a manifesto against the barons, and ordered the bishops to excommunicate them.
At the same time Paschal crowned Henry and promised never to excommunicate him.
Finally he had the Council of Rome excommunicate Guiscard and all his followers and thus forced their fealty.
It cut the excommunicate off from the sacraments which alone could insure his salvation and subjected him to temporal punishments.
This conduct forced Alexander's hand, and he gave Becket leave to excommunicate his enemies.
The King gave you leave to excommunicate the bishops when they were acting by his own order!
You will lay the realm under interdict, then, and excommunicate the whole of us?
It had been recognised and taught from Patristic times that unjust excommunication did not deprive the excommunicate of a part in the inward life of the Church (anima ecclesiæ).
I will excommunicate you and all your partisans, and all who shall at any time countenance you, and will cast them out of the church.
And this court censures you, ordains you to make public confession at both English and Gaelic kirks before the congregations, thereafter to be excommunicate and banished furth and from this parish of Inneraora and Glenaora.
She disposes of spiritual penalties and has the right to excommunicateoffenders when this is necessary to emphasise her laws.
He was too wroth to argue when he found that 'Alam Gul no longer wore the charm, and abused him with all the epithets that he could think of, and left the house threatening to excommunicate the whole family.
Not long ago a Mullah of considerable power, who had himself sold his daughter in marriage, had to make the most abject profession of repentance lest the Mullah Karbogha should excommunicate him, and he should have to fly the country.
In the summer of =1171= two Papal legates appeared in Normandy to excommunicate Henry unless he was able to convince them that he was guiltless of the murder.
John turned furiously on the barons, and was only hindered from attacking them by the new Archbishop, who threatened to excommunicate everyone who took arms against them.
