Under today's rules, however, excommunication is the new order of the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry Kremer: Shunning: The New GOP Mantra] Reference

Teresa Nielsen Hayden's formal excommunication from the Latter Day Saints is a fascinating read.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: January 14, 2001 - January 20, 2001 Archives] Reference

Inability to march goosestep (er, lockstep) will be punished by excommunication from the party. snark-NOT!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Bartlett: Frum’s Dismissal Shows ‘All That Matters Now Is Absolute Subservient Adherence’ To The GOP] Reference

The handling of the Regensburg address and of the recent lifting of the excommunication from the SSPX bishops was unsatisfactory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pope Benedict XVI, the ecclesiastically incorrect" pontiff] Reference

In many faith communities, exile - sometimes called excommunication or shunning - is the worst possible punishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Examiner California Headlines] Reference

In cases of dispute or misconduct the usual penalty is temporary excommunication, which is known as the stopping of food and water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

I agree with a previous poster that your excommunication is a foregone conclusion because you have already been determined to be an apostate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Top Five Reasons Why I’m Not Turning in a Letter of Resignation to the Church. | Mind on Fire] Reference

I've known plenty of Catholics who don't actively practice, but would be appalled at the notion of excommunication and would do whatever was necessary to avoid it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pharyngula] Reference

The releasing of the excommunication was a measure in the field of ecclesial discipline: the persons were freed of the burden of conscience of the heaviest ecclesial censure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vox Nova] Reference

Funny you should bring the topic of "excommunication" up Mir.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pop Theology Quiz] Reference

Court was obliged to explain it, for "excommunication" was a word of evil omen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference

My use of the terms 'excommunication' and 'schism' was tongue-in-cheek, of course; but only barely so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference

Therefore, it is quite evident and unequivocal that nobody thought in "excommunication" in the first place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

Unfortunately it repeated the same mistake concerning "excommunication" and a misquote from St Irenaeus of Lyon about freewill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Church and State] Reference

You persecute him for he removed the scarlet sign of "excommunication", which you used to despise, but which you now view as good!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference

The Rabbis have taught that the lighter kind of excommunication is not to last less than thirty days, and censure not less than seven.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference

What about saying 'excommunication' is a given for anyone who abuses a child?.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Catholic Reporter] Reference

By their barbarous "excommunication", the suffering they inflicted was incredible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

"excommunication," and say, "does not every one see a separate ecclesiastical communion?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada] Reference

"excommunication" continue to scare people ... um ... to death - keep AIDS / HIV way up in the 'ways people die' column.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike's Weekly Skeptic Rant] Reference

News of the band's pending excommunication will follow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Annals of the Naked Rowdies #45] Reference

No one dared to copy it --- the penalty was excommunication.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jesse Kornbluth: 'Eat Pray Love' Merchandise Gets 72 Hours On Home Shopping Network. Doesn't That Miss The Point?] Reference

It was only after his excommunication that we began to play in earnest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackballed] Reference

Q: Why do you think some people no longer see excommunication as a real threat?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interview With Toni Tortorilla, Female Catholic Priest] Reference

Tortorilla dismissed the excommunication and vowed to continue serving her community.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interview With Toni Tortorilla, Female Catholic Priest] Reference

At the time when excommunication made people quake, they lived in communities where everyone knew everyone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interview With Toni Tortorilla, Female Catholic Priest] Reference

Quite illegally, each tried to dismiss the other, like rival 14th-century popes hurling edicts of excommunication back and forth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yeltsin's Coup De Grace] Reference