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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

After the service, journalists were asked to leave while members voted on a move of “church discipline” to excommunicate Long under the church’s bylaws.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2021

“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 world was highly amused at the bull of the editorial Pope prefixed to the first volume, which excommunicates all printers who in reprinting the work should make any alteration in the text!

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli

In response, the Society's total of six bishops were excommunicated - and, in a highly unusual move, the Vatican said all the group's lay members "are to be considered schismatic and excommunicated".

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

They were immediately excommunicated, but the sanction was lifted in 2009 by Pope Benedict XVI.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

“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

In 2009, for example, Pope Benedict diplomatically reconnected with a far-right group that had, in a great scandal in the ’80s, excommunicated itself by consecrating bishops outside the church’s approval.

From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2023

Her bracelet tinkled, calling communicants to the altar, but the only one in the temple had been excommunicated from the Faith because of his parentage and continued mopping.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

“I don’t believe in excommunicating anything, but I’m, to a fault, aggressively not on-screen. I carry a phone, but I’m legendary for being the hardest person to get a hold of.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

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

The Pope had long felt the necessity of excommunicating his enemies, but had forborne up to this time in the hope that the Emperor might display some spirit of repentance.

From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) Cunningham