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The article compared Scientology's "suppressive persons" declarations to the traditional Catholic excommunication, where a person is barred from the sacraments but not actively persecuted by the church afterwards. Amy asked if the Mormon church does the same thing as Scientology and I was telling her that no, Mormon excommunication is much closer to how the Catholic church handles it. Excommunication IS a thing in Catholicism and has been basically since your church was founded, it's just very rarely exercised these days.

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