Excommunication - Wikipedia Excommunication is an institutional act of religious censure used to deprive, suspend, or limit membership in a religious community or to restrict certain rights within it, in particular those of being in communion with other members of the congregation, and of receiving the sacraments
Why and How Is Someone Excommunicated? - Catholic Answers An excommunicated person who marries has illicitly but validly received the sacrament In such circumstances the grace of the sacrament would be of no effect, since the person is in a state of mortal sin
EXCOMMUNICATE Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com EXCOMMUNICATE definition: to cut off from communion with a church or exclude from the sacraments of a church by ecclesiastical sentence See examples of excommunicate used in a sentence
Excommunication | Definition, Types, Facts | Britannica 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
The SSPX Crisis of 2026: What Excommunication Means, Who Gets . . . An excommunicated priest who celebrates Mass does so illicitly (contrary to Church law) but validly (the Eucharist is genuinely confected) This was true of SSPX Masses during the 1988-2009 excommunication period and will remain true in 2026 The faithful who attend SSPX Masses after July 1 receive the real Body and Blood of Christ
Excommunicate - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com 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 The science club might excommunicate you if you declare that the earth is flat