WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -excommunication, form of ecclesiastical censure by which a person is excluded from the communion of believers, the rites or sacraments of a church, and the rights of church membership but not necessarily from membership in the church as such.

Detailed explanation-2: -Those under major excommunication are in addition forbidden to receive not only the Eucharist but also the other sacraments, to administer sacraments or sacramentals, to exercise any ecclesiastical offices, ministries, or functions whatsoever, and any such exercise by them is null and void.

Detailed explanation-3: -To excommunicate someone is to officially banish them from their church. In everyday usage, this word can also refer to expelling or excluding someone from any kind of group.

Detailed explanation-4: -The purpose of excommunication is to exclude from the church those members who have behaviors or teachings contrary to the beliefs of a Christian community (heresy). It aims to protect members of the church from abuses and allow the offender to recognize their error and repent.

Detailed explanation-5: -Excommunication (Latin ex, out of, and communio or communicatio, communion-exclusion from the communion), the principal and severest censure, is a medicinal, spiritual penalty that deprives the guilty Christian of all participation in the common blessings of ecclesiastical society.

Detailed explanation-6: -Procuring of abortion. Apostasy: The total rejection of the Christian faith. Heresy: The obstinate post-baptismal denial of some truth, which must be believed with divine and Catholic faith. Schism: The rejection of the authority and jurisdiction of the pope as head of the Church. More items •26-Mar-2016