excommunicate

So, the court's guidelines will also help decide whether women can be denied entry into Parsi temples and Muslim mosques, whether religious leaders can excommunicate people and the legality of female genital mutilation.

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026

“They just said, ‘Hey, let’s excommunicate her father.’

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2022

“They can’t excommunicate me because I am not going anywhere,” she says.

From New York Times ● May 22, 2020

In the same year, Napoleon annexed the Papal States in central Italy, prompting Pope Pius VII to excommunicate him.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020

Such a pair were once sent with bulls to excommunicate Barnabas Visconti, but Barnabas only made them eat their bulls—parchment, ribbons, leaden seals and all.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

It now excommunicates anyone who practises polygamy but a number of fundamentalist Mormon offshoots continue to do so.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2020

Complying with the church commandments isn’t such a problem for many Amish inmates, because the church usually excommunicates members who commit crimes of violence or depravity before they enter prison.

From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2012

The mainstream Mormon church, which has no affiliation with the FLDS, abandoned polygamy in 1890 and excommunicates members engaged in the practice.

From Reuters ● Jun. 22, 2012

Good Catholic wives glanced at the crucifix on the wall, tried not to think of excommunicates.

From Time Magazine Archive

The authors of the treatises on the Inquisition," writes Tanon, "classed as heretics all those who favored heresy, and all excommunicates who did not submit to the Church within a certain period.

From The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church by Conway, Bertrand L. (Bertrand Louis)

“I like to say I was excommunicated from the church of the medical establishment,” he said in the Substack video.

From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2025

Two excommunicated Spanish nuns who have joined a sect were held for allegedly selling cultural assets belonging to the Catholic Church from a convent they refuse to leave, a court said on Friday.

From Barron's ● Nov. 28, 2025

He and his wife Anne were excommunicated by his local church in Cape Town, South Africa, the year before he died.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2024

Samuel Sanders, director of the Fellowship board, was excommunicated after he wrote an internal email to fellow board members in 1981.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2023

The Jews excommunicated him because he advocated a pantheistic doctrine, something like the “allness of God,” or “God in everything.”

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

The Vatican declared a formal schism with the Society of St. Pius X, excommunicating its bishops and priests for consecrating four bishops without papal consent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Soon after, the patriarch issued his own letter excommunicating the pope’s representatives.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

The Vatican has been considering developing a doctrine about excommunicating Catholic mobsters.

From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2021

Another commenter added, “Why are they excommunicating you over a 1-year-olds attendance? That baby will never remember your wedding day and likely would never care that he wasn’t invited.”

From Fox News ● May 15, 2019

Even spiders, too, runs the legend, were included in this summary process of excommunicating the serpent race.

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger