And, of course, when there are two popes, they mutually excommunicate each other.

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In 2009, Lugo admitted to fathering a son with one other woman, prompting an opposition senator to call on the Vatican to excommunicate him.

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This year's bishops' council voted to excommunicate Metropolitan Filaret of Kiev, who has set up a schismatic church in Ukraine one of several that now battle for that nation's souls.

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When the Catholic authorities in Mexico got wind of this movie, which tells of the affair between a young priest and a sixteen-year-old virgin, they threatened to excommunicate its two young stars.

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