(1) Thus we feud in our families, anathematize fellow Christians and demonize the stranger.(2) Trent, like other councils, anathematized various things and basically said, ‘If you think this, you are not in the Church’.(3) The Bourbon monarchies of Parma and Naples were swept by hysteria, and the Pope anathematized reform as a threat to faith itself.(4) Although Cockburn has impeccable environmentalist credentials - he's eager to save the redwoods - he was anathematized as ‘seriously warped ‘for holding such heretical notions.’(5) For the first time a Council spoke about the role of the Church in the world and urged all Catholics to discuss, not anathematise developments around them; and urged them to engage with the world rather than to retire into a ghetto.(6) His movement hoped to be accepted as the near contemporary Franciscans were but was anathematised and fiercely persecuted.(7) But Catholic missionaries, by omitting one or more persons of the Trinity when they were baptised, were anathematised by the Roman church.(8) Here, given the two parties' equal acceptance of temporary and material immediacy, this form of postmodern heresy charge might be an improvement: it just anathematizes a competing sameness.(9) Many Catholic clergy, meanwhile, anathematized any celebration of what had brought the first attack in history on religious practice, using language that had scarcely changed in the course of two centuries.(10) And, of course, non-liberal commentators have filled libraries anathematizing Roe for having launched a social revolution on the back of one of the flimsiest, most willful constitutional inventions in American history.(11) Indeed, many religious traditions have strongly anathematized medical research of any kind; it wasn't so long ago that doctors and students risked their freedom and even their lives if they dissected human cadavers.(12) And funniest of all, Bill anathematizes the double standards of his critics!(13) Sent to bishops throughout the world, the syllabus warned loyal Catholics everywhere of the pernicious doctrines which the pope had identified and anathematized .(14) Now you might say that's a very small step, but 100 years ago, denominations were very happy to anathematise each other at the drop of a hat, so to speak.(15) In those long years of Labour supremacy, the right was not merely out of office, but was anathematised and scorned.(16) Richard Perle, still a registered Democrat, is anathematized by liberals as a prince of darkness, instead of the defense whiz he is.
