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The militant anti-Judaism of the Church and the mendicant orders barely found an echo. The social, economic and political changes of the 14th century, however, including the wars and natural disasters that preceded and followed the Black Plague, created a new situation. [...] [The people] believed they were victims of a curse, punished for sins ...
Although initial estimates of the number expelled such as those of Henri Lapeyre range between 275,000 and 300,000 [3] Moriscos (or 4% of the total Spanish population), the extent and actual success of the expulsion order in purging Spain of its Moriscos has been increasingly challenged by modern historians, starting with the seminal studies ...
It was the only book, aside from the Roman Breviary, that the early Jesuit carried with him and constantly re-read during his missionary work in Portuguese India. St. Francis Xavier's copy of the book had been returned to Spain after his death and was long treasured in Madrid as a second class relic by the Society of Jesus.
Within the Church of England The Clergy Discipline Measure 2003 provides for a range of sanctions up to a lifelong ban from the exercise of ministry. Similarly, in the Anglican Church of Canada "deposition from the exercise of ministry if the person is ordained" [ 13 ] does not amount to defrocking, but merely removes the right to the exercise ...
The excommunication was carried out by legates of Pope Leo IX after the Pope's death. This excommunication was only directed at these individuals named and not at the wider eastern church; the legates specifically made note that they considered the wider eastern church to remain pious and orthodox. [37]
In his new book Over The Rainbow: Tales from an Unexpected Year, per Metro UK, the "Song 2" musician, 56, revealed that was once kicked out of a church Christmas party for desecrating an "antique ...
In the canon law of the Catholic Church, excommunication (Lat. ex, "out of", and communio or communicatio, "communion"; literally meaning "exclusion from communion") is a form of censure. In the formal sense of the term, excommunication includes being barred not only from the sacraments but also from the fellowship of Christian baptism . [ 1 ]
Michael Tullberg/Getty Images When John Stamos was 17 years old, he was allegedly recruited to join the Church of Scientology though his membership didn’t last long. “With me, I was in an ...