Originally posted by lucifershammer
Don't go all legalistic on me. When a person realises he's dying, he has the right to certain sacraments - such as Reconciliation, Eucharist and the Anointing of the Sick. What I meant was that these sacraments cannot be denied to a dying person even if he has a censure placed on him by the Church.
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interdict (ĭn'tərdĭkt) , ecclesiastical censure notably used in the Roman Catholic Church, especially in the Middle Ages. When a parish, state, or nation is placed under the interdict no public church ceremony may take place, only certain sacraments, especially baptism, may be administered, and the dead may not receive Christian burial. The interdict is used to sway public opinion and to force action. A famous example was the interdict placed upon England during the reign of King John by Innocent III in 1208.
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The word interdict usually refers to an ecclesiastical penalty in the Roman Catholic Church. The most common usage is a penalty which suspends all public worship and withdraws the church's sacraments in a territory or country. An interdict issued against a country was to it the equivalent of issuance of excommunication against an individual. An interdict would cause all the churches to be closed, and almost all the sacraments not to be allowed (i.e. preventing marriage, confession, Anointing of the Sick, and the eucharist). ........
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