Innocent, like his predecessor, hated heresy, and in the bull Summis desiderantes (5th of December 1484) he instigated very severe measures against magicians and witches in Germany; he prohibited (1486) on pain of excommunication the reading of the propositions of Pico della Mirandola; he appointed (1487) T. [Please select]
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Excommunication was still a fearful weapon, and used only in desperate circumstances. [Please select]
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Excommunication was as much dreaded as in the Mediaeval church. [Please select]
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He therefore gave the right of excommunication to the congregation in conjunction with the clergy. [Please select]
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He stayed in Germany and he was punished with excommunication. [Please select]
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With excommunication hanging over his head, Ireland had suddenly become a formidable peril. [Please select]
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The excommunication would at least be inconvenient; it might cost him his crown. [Please select]
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EXCOMMUNICATION Disobedience to the regulations of the Church might be followed by excommunication. [Please select]
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This was an old-fashioned excommunication; and we in these days have but a faint idea what a dreadful thing it was, especially when accompanied with an interdict. [Please select]
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Violence to his person was the last thing to do, for this would have involved the King in war with the adherents of the Pope, and would have entailed an excommunication. [Please select]
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