Now with the special *bonus* word "anti-canonize"!
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Why isn’t an anathema or excommunication an anti-canonization?
@Jay D : I encourage people who know better to correct me if I’m wrong, but I think that :
1) as for anathema : the Church declares a statement, an opinion or a doctrine “anathema” when this statement, opinion or doctrine are heretical ;
2) as for excommunication : excommunication is a canonical penal sanction. When the Church excommunicates someone, it means that this person cannot receive any sacrament (except Confession, of course) until he or she goes to confession and receive God’s forgiveness for his or her sins.
So anathema and excommunication have nothing to do with the hypothetical “anti-canonization”.
@Thibaud
Trent seems to anathematize a large swath of people, not just statements, opinions, and doctrines.
For example:
Canon 9.
If anyone says that the sinner is justified by faith alone, meaning that nothing else is required to cooperate in order to obtain the grace of justification, and that it is not in any way necessary that he be prepared and disposed by the action of his own will, let him be anathema.