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King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy was excommunicated by Pope Pius IX when the king successfully waged war against the Papal States, resulting in limiting the pope to Vatican City. [84] Before Victor Emmanuel II's death his excommunication was lifted and he was permitted to take the last rites. [85]
Any secular person who removes goods or privileges from the church by force is excommunicated. [9] Any secular ruler who attempts to use force to expel the pope or a patriarch is excommunicated. [9] Any secular ruler or lay person who attempts to act against the proper legal process in a canonical election for a bishop is excommunicated. [9]
Ne Romani (1311), promulgated by Pope Clement V during the Council of Vienne, extended suffrage in papal election to excommunicated cardinals in an attempt to limit schisms. [ 1 ] This list includes only cardinals who have been explicitly excommunicated by a pope or ecumenical council , rather than those who (depending on one's interpretation ...
A collection of popes have had violent deaths through the centuries. The circumstances have ranged from martyrdom (Pope Stephen I) to war (Lucius II), to an alleged beating by a jealous husband (Pope John XII). A number of other popes have died under circumstances that some believe to be murder, but for which definitive evidence has not been found. Martyr popes This list is incomplete ; you ...
ROME (AP) — The pope looms so large in everyday Italian life that there are lots of expressions that make light of even a dark event like his death. “A pope dies, they make another,” goes ...
Salaverri and Nicolau's opinion is that only those which have been excommunicated by a "total, formal and perfect excommunication" can be said to be outside of the Catholic Church. [ 13 ] Catholic priest Joseph Krupp states that the person excommunicated is still considered Catholic and still has all the duties of that relationship, including ...
Carlo Maria Viganò, an Italian archbishop and former papal ambassador to the United States who became a major critic of Pope Francis, has been excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church for ...
The Amish have also been known to excommunicate members that were either seen or known for breaking rules, or questioning the church, a practice known as shunning. Jehovah's Witnesses use the term disfellowship to refer to their form of excommunication. The word excommunication means putting a