Basically, the grounds for excommunication is this: You have committed a grave offense that caused you to be spiritually separated from the Church and the community of the faithful. You have left the Church on your own accord by committing the offense. Does the Catholic Church still excommunicate? The PopeRead More →
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. Was Paul excommunicated? Amidst the troubles he faced, Paul was imprisoned,Read More →
The noun excommunication is a formal way of describing what happens when someone gets kicked out of his or her church, for good. … The term is used most often in churches whose traditions include the concept of communion, as another Latin meaning of excommunication is “to expel from communion.”Read More →