In January 2009, the Pope lifted the excommunication of a bishop who had denied the Holocaust.
Nor did his lifting of the excommunication this year of a bishop who had denied the Holocaust.
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In writing this book, Fadl also expands upon the heresy of takfir the excommunication of one Muslim by another.
Though Rome has censured errant theologians before, it has rarely resorted to excommunication.
Jewish leaders harshly criticized Benedict when he removed the excommunication of a traditionalist British bishop who had denied the Holocaust.
So far, threats of excommunication have persuaded legislators from approving a comprehensive reproductive health bill, which would fund contraception programs.
The Vatican has said it was unaware of Bishop Williamson's views about the Holocaust when it decided to cancel his excommunication.
It's the canonical crime of abortion, which Peters said more aptly applies to abortion providers, that would incur automatic excommunication and require a bishop's intervention.
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The Catechism of the Catholic Church says that person who procures an abortion incurs automatic excommunication, a penalty that often only a bishop can lift.
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The Vatican ordered Williamson to recant, and said the pope was not aware of Williamson's views on the Holocaust when he lifted the excommunication.
In a grand gesture toward reconciliation, he lifted the excommunication of four of its bishops, unaware that one, Richard Williamson, was a Holocaust denier.
And the scrutineers are explicitly exhorted not to form any sort of cabal or make any plans to sway the election, under pain of excommunication.
Until now, any German Catholic who stopped payment faced eventual excommunication.
Although the measures laid out in the decree are similar to excommunication from the church, German observers say the word is carefully avoided in the decree.
And cardinals take the threat of excommunication more seriously, perhaps, than translators or support staff on hand during the wider meetings ahead of the Sistine Chapel lockdown.
The late Archbishop Lefebvre made them bishops in unsanctioned consecrations in Switzerland in 1988, prompting the immediate excommunication of all five by the late Pope John Paul II.
Divulging details of the conclave is punishable by excommunication.
The bishop's excommunication was unrelated to his Holocaust denial.
Benedict seemed genuinely surprised by the warm reception he received as well as the harsh criticism when things went wrong, as they did when he lifted the excommunication of a bishop who turned out to be a Holocaust-denier.
In 2009, at the height of another frenzy surrounding the lifting of the excommunication of a Holocaust-denying traditionalist bishop, Benedict dispatched a plaintive letter to the bishops of the world, voicing hurt for the way he'd been attacked and apologizing for the Vatican's mishandling of the situation.
His push to return the Society of Pius X, a Catholic splinter group, to the fold in 2009 stumbled badly when the pope lifted an excommunication ban against group's leadership, only to learn after the fact that one of its bishops had given a television interview denying the scope of the Holocaust.
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