Posted on 08/08/2009 11:13:03 AM PDT by Salvation
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An ecclesiastical censure by which one is more or less excluded from communion with the faithful. It is also called anathema, especially if it is inflicted with formal solemnities on persons notoriously obstinate to reconciliation. Some excommunicated persons are vitandi (to be avoided), others tolerati (tolerate). No one is vitandus unless that person has been publicly excommunicated by name by the Holy See, and it is expressly stated that the person is "to be avoided," Anyone who lays violent hands on the Pope is automatically vitandus.
In general, the effects of excommunication affect the person's right to receive the sacraments, or Christian burial, until the individual repents and is reconciled with the Church. In order for an excommunication to take effect, the person must have been objectively guilty of the crime charged. (Etym. Latin ex-, from + communicare, to communicate: excommunicatio, exclusion from a community.)
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What the Anglican Communion should do to the Episcopal Cult, although “anathematize” works for me too.
How about "notoriously obstinate" CINO politicians?
I think they fit the definition.
The Catholic Church made anathema (erroneously) synonymous with excommunication only 1917. Anathema was never eternal damnation as some understand it. Anyone can always return to the Church by repentance.
Excommunication is closer to penance. Eastern priests would excommunicate "unclean" women for a period of time if it could be proven that they attended the Divine Liturgy four times a month.
Orthodox women would gather outside the Church to follow the litrugy during those "unclean" days of the month. But christological heretics, like Nestorian, were not just excommunicated, they were thrown out of the Church.
“Orthodox women would gather outside the Church to follow the litrugy during those “unclean” days of the month.”
My great grandmother would tell of sticking her head into the church through a window to see the Liturgy during those days
So do I. But, seemingly, they are put into the "tolerated" category.
Not to belittle anyone’s judgment of the politicians, because I agree that they are out of line and are CINOs, but I have been taught that to be excommunicated a person must have a very serious, serious charge against them. Some of the priests who abused fit into that serious, serious category. Also blaspheming the Holy Spirit, I believe, earns you an instant trip out of the Church.
That’s one thing that a lot of posters on the FR site do not realize. (I also wonder about those that deny the Mother of God — what will their misfortune/fortune be?)
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