rút phép thông công

Definition

1. Verb phrase:
   • To excommunicate: The formal act of expelling a baptized person from the communion and membership of the Roman Catholic Church, denying them participation in the sacraments and the rites of the church community.
   • To be excommunicated: The state of having received this severe ecclesiastical penalty.

Usage Examples

• Verb phrase:
  • Giáo hội có thể rút phép thông công những tín hữu phạm tội nghiêm trọng. (The Church can excommunicate believers who commit serious sins.)
  • Ông ta bị rút phép thông công vì tuyên bố chống lại giáo lý. (He was excommunicated for declaring doctrines against the teachings.)
  • Hành động rút phép thông công là biện pháp cuối cùng. (The act of excommunication is a last resort.)

Advanced Usage

• This term is specific to Catholic canon law and carries significant theological and social weight. It implies a severing of the individual from the spiritual benefits and communal life of the Church.

Variants and Related Words

• Vạ tuyệt thông (n): A synonym for excommunication; the penalty or state itself.

  • Vị giám mục tuyên bố vạ tuyệt thông. (The bishop declared the excommunication.)

• Khai trừ (v): To expel, to ostracize. A more general term for expulsion from any group or organization.

  • Anh ta bị khai trừ khỏi đảng. (He was expelled from the party.)

Synonyms

• Excommunicate: To officially exclude someone from participation in the sacraments and services of the Christian Church.
• Cast out: To expel forcefully (more general).

Related Idioms

• While there is no direct idiom using the full phrase "rút phép thông công," the concept is central to the idiom:
  • Dứt phép thông công: An older or variant phrasing meaning the same act of excommunication.

    • Hội thánh quyết định dứt phép thông công với kẻ bội giáo. (The congregation decided to excommunicate the apostate.)