How to Get Excommunicated & Live Forever

Excommunication has always been the greatest weapon in the Catholic Church’s arsenal, and it has taken down some very big names. But does it mean what you think?

Everyone knows that the strictest penalty in the Catholic Church is excommunication. In contemporary conversations it is billed as the ultimate harsh punishment for sinners and heretics. Of course heretical groups and monarchs who supported them, like Elizabeth I, were regularly forced out of the church. But the truth is that excommunication isn’t just for heretics.

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