excommunications
Formal religious ejections
Excommunications are formal expulsions from a religious community, particularly the Catholic Church.
The punishment bars a person from participating in sacraments and religious rites.
The term extends to any official banishment from an organization or group: The excommunications of dissenting members sent a clear message about party loyalty.
Place of Christian worship
- papalof the pontiff
- decreeAuthoritative legal command
- canonAccepted authoritative works
- synodChurch governing assembly
bishop · heresy · apostasy · schism · doctrine · clergy · theology · heretic
Shunned, rejected person
- pariahRejected, shunned person
- persona non grataOfficially unwelcome individual
- untouchableExempt from criticism or harm
- leperOne shunned for illness
exile · apostate · heretic · infidel · dissident · renegade · scapegoat · outsider
Intensely detested thing
- curseInvoked harm through words
- damnationEternal punishment decree
- denunciationFormal public accusation
- censureFormal institutional disapproval
reprobation · execration · malediction · odium · infamy · reproach · rebuke · admonition
Banishment from a group
- shunningDeliberately avoiding someone
- alienationState of being isolated
- rejectionDenial of acceptance
- marginalizationRelegation to powerless periphery
avoidance · cold-shouldering · snubbing · ignoring · boycott · isolation · segregation · disapproval
Forced permanent removal
- exileBanishment from homeland
- proscriptionFormal ban or condemnation
- banOfficial restriction on something
- ejectionForced removal from somewhere
purge · deportation · eviction · exclusion · removal · dismissal · ouster · casting out
church
Place of Christian worship
synod · bishop · heresy · apostasy · schism · doctrine · clergy · theology · heretic · pontiff
outcast
Shunned, rejected person
- pariahRejected, shunned person
- persona non grataOfficially unwelcome individual
- untouchableExempt from criticism or harm
leper · exile · apostate · heretic · infidel · dissident · renegade · scapegoat · outsider · blackballed
anathema
Intensely detested thing
- curseInvoked harm through words
- damnationEternal punishment decree
- denunciationFormal public accusation
censure · reprobation · execration · malediction · odium · infamy · reproach · rebuke · admonition · interdiction
ostracism
Banishment from a group
- shunningDeliberately avoiding someone
- alienationState of being isolated
- rejectionDenial of acceptance
marginalization · avoidance · cold-shouldering · snubbing · ignoring · boycott · isolation · segregation · disapproval · disownment
expulsion
Forced permanent removal
- exileBanishment from homeland
- proscriptionFormal ban or condemnation
- banOfficial restriction on something
ejection · purge · deportation · eviction · exclusion · removal · dismissal · ouster · casting out · separation
- CatholicismVatican, cardinals, pope, popes, Roman Catholicism
- Catholic controversiesabuse scandal, sexual abuse, pedophilia, cover-ups, coverups
- papal lawpapal bulls, encyclicals
- Vatican documentspapal bulls, encyclicals, Holy See
excommunicationsadmissions
Acts of letting in
absolutions · reconciliations · baptisms · confirmations · initiations