Sentence examples for afraid of excommunication from inspiring English sources

"We're not afraid of excommunication.

Both kinds of excommunication bar the excommunicated person from the sacraments of the church as well as from Christian burial.

A sentence of excommunication hung over Henry.

Isis uses the takfiri doctrine of excommunication to justify the slaughter of Shias and Yazidis.

"There was always the threat of excommunication, lack of approval, castigation," he told me.

The Mother Church sent to Stetson's house at 7 West 96th a notice of excommunication.

But I'll confess, at the danger of excommunication, that distraction has sometimes led to impatience.

The decree of excommunication was, as is the Vatican custom, announced to the public in Latin.

The bull of excommunication by the church was formally released only later.

A sensitive soul, Acosta found it impossible to bear the isolation of excommunication, and he recanted.

The seriousness with which Roman Catholicism regarded heresy is shown by the ancient penalty of excommunication.