Notable Personal Canonical Interdicts
In Malta between 8 April 1961 and 4 April 1969 the leadership of the Malta Labour Party, readers, advertisers and distributors of Party papers as well as its voters were interdicted by the local bishop. Previously, between 1930 and 1933 interdiction was imposed on the Constitutional Party and Labour. In both cases, the Nationalist Party won elections while its opponents were interdicted.
Bishop René Henry Gracida of Corpus Christi, Texas interdicted a Roman Catholic politician in the late 20th century for supporting legal abortion; the unnamed individual died while under interdict.
Writing in the Wisconsin State Journal, Doug Erickson interpreted as a threat to use interdict a letter from Bishop Robert Morlino of Madison to the Catholics of Platteville. The letter itself did not use the word "interdict" and stated that the bishop hoped not even to have to issue canonical warnings, but it had attached to it a series of "texts for prayerful reflection" comprising two extracts from the teaching of the Second Vatican Council, five passages from the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and seven canons from the Code of Canon Law, two of which mention circumstances in which a personal interdict may be imposed on individuals.
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