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Luther’s Excommunication: 500 Years Later

Why return after half a millennium to this excommunication? Unfortunately, its consequences continue to be felt and to generate suffering. As a matter of fact, in Canon Law excommunication ceases with the death of the person condemned, but in this case the effects have been much more lasting, for almost five centuries. It seems that the Bull “excommunicated” not only Luther, but also condemned the Reformation.