Due to public scrutiny, this act was reversed a week after it happened to Sri Lankan author Tissa Balasuriya.
Due to public scrutiny, this act was reversed a week after it happened to Sri Lankan author Tissa Balasuriya. Though this process can occur immediately or latae sententiae, Canon 1425 states that it usually is administered ferendae sententiae by a panel of three judges. It is often said that an interdict is a form of this process applied to a whole polity. This act draws from Matthew 18, which says to treat those who (*) ignore the church as "a Gentile and a tax-gatherer." This act was used as a threat in Leo X's bull Exsurge Domine, and may occur if one violates the "sacred species" by desecrating a consecrated host, or commits other grave sins. For 10 points, name this process in which the Catholic Church bans an individual from receiving the sacraments.
Due to public scrutiny, this act was reversed a week after it happened to Sri Lankan author Tissa Balasuriya.
excommunication