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  2. List of cardinals excommunicated by the Catholic Church

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    Excommunication—literally, the denial of communion—usually means that a person is barred from participating in the Sacraments or holding ecclesiastical office. 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]

  3. List of people excommunicated by the Catholic Church

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    Excommunicated Catholics, however, are barred from receiving the Eucharist or from taking an active part in the liturgy (reading, bringing the offerings, etc.). [4] Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, with 5 separate excommunications from 3 different Popes, carries the distinction of publicly being the most excommunicated individual. In this list ...

  4. Nicolaus Copernicus - Wikipedia

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    Copernicus's Toruń birthplace (ul. Kopernika 15, left).Together with no. 17 (right), it forms Muzeum Mikołaja Kopernika.Nicolaus Copernicus was born on 19 February 1473 in the city of Toruń (Thorn), in the province of Royal Prussia, in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, [10] [11] to German-speaking parents.

  5. List of excommunicable offences in the Catholic Church

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    Excommunication is an ecclesiastical penalty placed on a person to encourage the person to return to the communion of the church. An excommunicated person cannot receive any sacraments or exercise an office within the church until the excommunication is lifted by a valid authority in the church (usually a bishop). Previously, other penalties ...

  6. Excommunication in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    Excommunication is intended to invite the person to change behaviour or attitude, repent, and return to full communion. [1] It is not an "expiatory penalty" designed to make satisfaction for the wrong done, much less a "vindictive penalty" designed solely to punish. Excommunication, which is the gravest penalty of all, is always "medicinal". [2]

  7. Vitandus and toleratus - Wikipedia

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    A vitandus (Latin for "(one) to be avoided"; plural: vitandi) was someone subject to a decree of excommunication which called for Catholics to shun them. [3] [4] The three criteria to be a vitantus were: [5] the decree of excommunication must be publicly announced; the excommunicate's name must be mentioned in the decree

  8. Archaeologists Found a 500-Year-Old Compass—Turns Out It May ...

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    Researchers discovered a 500-year-old compass in a hidden chamber in Frombork, Poland, possibly used by Copernicus, shedding light on his astronomical work.

  9. List of papal bulls - Wikipedia

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    Excommunicated Napoleon Bonaparte and anyone who contributed to the annexation of the Papal States and overthrow of the Holy See's temporal power by the First French Empire: 1814 Sollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum ("The care of all the churches") Reestablishes the Society of Jesus. 1824 Quod divina sapientia ("What divine wisdom") Leo XII