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  1. What is excommunication? - Catholic Straight Answers

    What is excommunication? Excommunication is the Church’s most severe penalty imposed for particularly grave sins. Through baptism, a person is incorporated into the body of the Church …

  2. What is excommunication? - CARM

    Dec 10, 2008 · Excommunication is the action of the Christian church administered upon a Church member who has refused to repent of his sin and/or who has refused to recant of …

  3. What makes CARM right about what it teaches? - CARM

    Aug 17, 2013 · What makes CARM right about what it teaches? CARM is only correct as far as we are in agreement with God’s Word, the Bible. The goal of CARM is to be as faithful to the …

  4. Anathema in Catholicism - CARM

    Dec 5, 2008 · The Bible uses the term, anathema, to mean separated from Christ. Catholic anathema means an person can't take communion or sacraments

  5. I've been told the Masons have changed. Can Catholics join the …

    Since the decree “In Eminenti” of Pope Clement XII in 1738, Catholics have been forbidden to join the Masons, and until 1983, under pain of excommunication. (Please note that Freemasonry …

  6. The Amish and shunning - CARM

    Oct 31, 2016 · The Amish practice of shunning is the exaggeration and often abuse of the biblical principles of excommunication and church discipline.

  7. If a priest leaves the priesthood, is he still able to perform the ...

    In addressing this question, we must first remember that the Sacrament of Holy Orders, like Baptism and Confirmation, is a character sacrament. Each character sacrament confers an …

  8. - Excommunication | CARM Forums

    Oct 18, 2023 · Is the Church of Rome today, reluctant to pronounce a person as being "excommunicated" from their religious sect of Roman Catholicism?

  9. The Roman Catholic view on justification - CARM

    Dec 5, 2008 · We can see that Roman Catholic theology pronounces a curse of excommunication, of being outside the camp of Christ if you believe that you are saved by …

  10. Why does the orthodox cross have three bars with the bottom one …

    After the Schism of 1054 resulting from the political struggle and mutual excommunication between the Pope and the Patriarch of Constantinople, the Church in Russia eventually …