answersLogoWhite

0

To be excommunicated means to be excluded from the community of believers. It is a severe penalty intended to express the severity of a particular act and to encourage the person excommunicated to examine their actions and seek reconciliation with the church. It is a tool used by the church to correct members for egregious acts which violate the teaching of the church on matters of faith and morals. Some excommunications are incurred automatically. Others are conferred. Each is a penalty to encourage reflection and reconciliation. A person thus excommunicated cannot receive the sacraments of the church until the matter is resolved.

What else can I help you with?

Continue Learning about General History

What is the meaning of excommunicato capiendo?

latin for: excommunication takings


What were the punishment in Tudor time for not obeying religes rules?

Excommunication Excommunication is a religious censure used to deprive, suspend or limit membership in a religious community. The word means putting [someone] out of communion. In some religions, excommunication includes spiritual condemnation of the member or group. Excommunication may involve banishment, shunning, and shaming, depending on the religion, the offense that caused excommunication, or the rules or norms of the religious community


What is it called when a country get kicked out of church during the medieval times?

excommunication. It's still the same now.


What events led to Martin Luther's excommunication?

His theology challenged the authority of the pope by teaching that the Bible is the only source of divinely revealed knowledge and opposed sacerdotalism by considering all baptized Christians to be a holy priesthood.His refusal to retract all of his writings at the demand of Pope Leo X and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V resulted in his excommunication by the pope.


What would happen to a king that was excommunicated?

When that still happened (namely, in the Middle Ages) most Kings just ruled on as if nothing had happened and they usually called on their local bishops and cardinals to give out a statement that the excommunication itself was illegal. But in the meantime, they sought through quiet diplomacy to solve the issue that had caused the Pope to issue the excommunication. They had to, because excommunication relieved the local lords of their oath of fealty and obedience to their king, and this might give these vassal lords a pretext to stir up trouble or support another member of the ruling House in a bid for power. Occasionally a Pope excommunicated a King so often that even his vassals and bishops stopped taking it seriously.