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- noun Plural form of
excommunicant .
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Examples
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The many "come back home" campaigns designed to lure lapsed Catholics back into church are aimed at excommunicants -- those who left because breaking the rules left them feeling unwelcome.
Michele Somerville: Roy Bourgeois Detained At The Vatican For The Crime Of Primacy Of Conscience Michele Somerville 2011
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This clever overture, evidently long meditated by Pope Benedict XVI as part of his generous approach to other conservative schismatics and former excommunicants like the ultra-right Lefebvrists, was written up mostly as a curiosity; a dawn raid on the much-beset Anglican Communion.
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The many "come back home" campaigns designed to lure lapsed Catholics back into church are aimed at excommunicants -- those who left because breaking the rules left them feeling unwelcome.
Michele Somerville: Roy Bourgeois Detained At The Vatican For The Crime Of Primacy Of Conscience Michele Somerville 2011
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This clever overture, evidently long meditated by Pope Benedict XVI as part of his generous approach to other conservative schismatics and former excommunicants like the ultra-right Lefebvrists, was written up mostly as a curiosity; a dawn raid on the much-beset Anglican Communion.
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McBride's was a public excommunication, but Catholic church pews and altars are filled with ipso facto "excommunicants."
Michele Somerville: Female Priests: As Sinful as Pedophiles? 2010
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For 20 years we were vilified as being "outside the Church", charged with being "disobedient" vis-à-vis the Pope, and referred to as "excommunicants and fundamentalists".
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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Many of these excommunicants end up in slums surrounding San Cristobal and they are an unpleasant source of social unrest.
On Sex 2006
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Many of these excommunicants end up in slums surrounding San Cristobal and they are an unpleasant source of social unrest.
On Sex 2006
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Many of these excommunicants end up in slums surrounding San Cristobal and they are an unpleasant source of social unrest.
On Sex 2006
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Many of these excommunicants end up in slums surrounding San Cristobal and they are an unpleasant source of social unrest.
On Sex 2006
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