Excommunication is a terrible punishment to inflict on any one.
The Government, which has been in a very uncertain condition since the death of Canovas, has been unable to oppose the excommunication of Señor Reverter.
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The excommunication would at least be inconvenient; it might cost him his crown.
It was only brought to an end by an appeal to the fears of men,--the dread of excommunication and consequent torments in hell, which was the great governing idea of the Middle Ages, the means by which the clergy controlled the laity.
Some years later the parish of Glendevon came prominently before the public in connection with the deposition and excommunication of its doughty true-blue Presbyterian minister, the Rev.
The power of excommunication was originally put into the hand of the local bishops.
The power of excommunication to preserve the doctrinal unity and purity of the Church implied some share in appointment and administration.
A truce for four years was enjoined on all Christian princes on pain of excommunicationand interdict.
Excommunication was the greatest moral power in all history and effective simply because the Christian opinion of the age responded to it and enforced it.
Excommunication for a king meant, in addition to the same treatment as a private individual, the deprivation of all authority and the absolution of subjects from all obedience.
After the Pope's release, he had a Roman synod repudiate the treaty and of course the excommunication of the Emperor followed (1112) and civil war was continued.
Hoping to save himself by a counter blow,[462:5] Henry had one of his bishops pronounce an excommunication and anathema upon Gregory and induced a servile synod at Pavia to reiterate the curse.
Henry proved obstinate, in a council held at Rome in 1080 the Pope renewed the excommunication of Henry, and again deposed him.
The power of excommunication was exercised by the Pope for the whole Church, by the bishop for his diocese, and even by subordinate Church officials.
The formula and ceremony for excommunication were not uniform either in time or place but varied greatly.
In his hands were kept the terrible thunders of the Church to enforce obedience to papal law, namely, excommunication and the interdict.
This may have been its origin, for the Church adopted the same idea in applying excommunication to the barbarians.
The use of such powerful weapons as excommunication and interdict was soon greatly abused.
Hudson's Idle Days in Patagonia, and Naturalist in the La Plata; G.
On reaching the country of the Bebryces, they again landed to get water, and were challenged by the king, Amycus, to match him with a boxer.
In stating the fact, these writers have seemed to think that excommunication in Rome, in the fourteenth century, produced no effect!
By order of the Legate of the Holy Father we affix to this public monument of justice and of wrath, the bull of excommunication against a heretic and rebel.
The awful curse of the papal excommunication upon the chief magistrate of the Pontifical City, seemed to freeze up all the arteries of life.
The thief stuck to his story, so the dupe complained, and, as the presumption is considered to be strongly against him, they are going to try what excommunication will do.
The same thing, in other circumstances, occurred again and again, with the result that the terrors of excommunication ceased to be dreaded.
The major excommunication was a frightful weapon, and might well be dreaded.
Those who suffered the greater excommunication were excluded from the Mass, from burial in consecrated ground, from ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and practically from all intercourse with their fellow Christians.
The former mode of excommunication is one of which we in these days happily know nothing, as it can only be effectively carried out with the approval and assistance of the State, which in modern times would never be granted.
Nor am I ignorant that there are pious and learned men who do not consider excommunication to be necessary under Christian princes.
They limited themselves to the declaration, thatexcommunication was not in force among them, but that they had certain regulations, of which they forwarded them a copy.
Bertha was repudiated; and the excommunication was at last taken off.
He cited him to Rome, under pain, if disobeyed, of excommunication to the priest, and an interdict to the republic that harboured him.
One Francis de Pouille offered himself to the trial of fire, in favour of the validity of the excommunication of the pope against the pretended inspiration and miracles of the prophet.
As this excommunication suspended all the functions of the priest until removal, its observance would have gone far to check any abuse that was not incurable, but neither priest nor penitent paid to it the slightest attention.
He promised to prosecute with the utmost severity all disobedience to the bull, and called for denunciations, within six days, of all infractions, under pain of excommunication and of two hundred ducats.
Of the Pope’s Bull of excommunication he says “they ought to order his horrid ban to be taken to the back quarters where children of Adam go to stool; it might then be used as a pocket-handkerchief.
He would willingly have made use of excommunication if only “there had been people who would let themselves be excommunicated.
When dealing with the Bull of Excommunication against Luther, we already had occasion to remark that much in it was due to the after-effects of the older habits of speech usual in earlier condemnations.
He despatched soldiers from London to throw themselves in Roger's path; and he so far made use of the spiritual artillery at his command as to level a sentence of excommunication against the Norman earl.
The mention of excommunication produced an instantaneous effect on the Saxon chiefs, and they looked at each other like men suddenly seized with superstitious terror.
But the Hebrew excommunicationhad this advantage, that the party never lost all hope of regaining his original standing.
Soon afterward Bernard made advances toward reconciliation, which Abélard accepted; whereupon his excommunication was removed.
Excommunication was tried in vain, and even the efforts of a Papal legate failed to restore order.
Besides, under their commissions, the said auditors had issued letters compulsory, inhibitory and citatory on inquisitors and other officials, in consequence of which they were under excommunication and against this they appealed.
Under pain of excommunicationand suspension of functions, Carranza was to be set at liberty and, after appointing a vicar for his see of Toledo, was at once to present himself to the pope for judgement.
Royz however refused to make the payments, stating that the inquisitors-general had placed him under excommunication if he should pay any royal grants.
Any omission or deviation from this by receiver, inquisitor or scrivener was punishable with excommunication and a fine of five hundred ducats.
A description of the culprit was at once distributed, with a mandate ordering the civil authorities to summon every one to assist and the familiars and commissioners to scour the roads, under pain of excommunication and five hundred ducats.
Another attempt was made on March 29th, but Villanueva refused to abjure and this was repeated on several subsequent occasions, in spite of warnings of the excommunication that would follow persistent obstinacy.
You know, my brethren (said he), that I am ordered to proclaim an excommunication against Frederick.
Sophia the act of excommunication which severed the patriarch from the communion of the West, and condemned what were asserted to be seven deadly heresies of the Eastern Church.
Hardly was the excommunication issued before a number of rich Greeks escaped from the city, evidently with the intention of joining the revolutionary armies.
He committeth no sin who holds this excommunication invalid.
The excommunication of Savonarola by Pope Alexander VI.
Every one was amazed, and then so much delighted at the marvelous skill of this boy of fourteen that the penalty of excommunication was entirely forgotten.
To his dismay he was told that the music was considered so wonderful that the Papal musicians were forbidden on pain ofexcommunication by the Pope to take any part of the score away, or to copy it, or allow any one else to copy it.
