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ex-communication

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  • Pope Benedict XVI has rescinded the ex-communication of Bishop Richard Williamson who has publicly denied the murder of six million Jews during World War II.

    "I believe there were no gas chambers" Not a sheep 2009

  • The Catholic Church's ex-communication still in place, declared a cold Holy War against them.

    Annals of the Naked Rowdies #22 2010

  • After two prior unsuccessful attempts to escape (1990 and 1993), her third attempt in 1998 led to final disentanglement from the group, but resulted in ex-communication from her friends and divorce from her husband of 20 years.

    Live interview today: Escaping Scientology, an insider’s true story 2008

  • She was troubled by the child abuse scandals in the church, and the church's defensive reaction, and by the ex-communication of Sister Margaret McBride, a nun and hospital administrator who had approved an abortion for a woman whose life was in danger.

    Anne Rice: 'I Quit Christianity' 2010

  • As well as his 2006 speech to which some Muslims took offence, the Pope has also upset some Jews recently by rescinding the ex-communication of a Holocaust-denying bishop.

    Saved by the Click 2009

  • Ambedkar identified some of the features of caste system as hierarchy, lack of social efficiency, social immobility, disruptive tendencies, ex-communication, endogamy and anti-social spirit.

    Untouchable Spring .... అంటరాని వసంతం kesav 2009

  • Secular priests were prohibited from interfering with the regular clergy, on penalty of ex-communication.

    Mexico's Colonial Era - Part 2 2007

  • Ambedkar identified some of the features of caste system as hierarchy, lack of social efficiency, social immobility, disruptive tendencies, ex-communication, endogamy and anti-social spirit.

    Archive 2009-02-01 kesav 2009

  • The opportunity for dialog has never been dismissed on SCIY, but rather the claims it resists are those that turn the private concerns of a community over to orders of state powers, one which resorts to the discourse of cultural exclusion and ex-communication rather than to a civil dialog! tony... dada.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • Secular priests were prohibited from interfering with the regular clergy, on penalty of ex-communication.

    Mexico's Colonial Era - Part 2 2007

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