Sanctions spelled out include a "breaking of ecclesial communion", or "walking apart".

And so we're talking not just about sacramental communion, but ecclesial communion.

It also has committed itself to an exploration of the relationship between eucharistic communion and ecclesial communion.

"Ecclesial communion has been painfully wounded, a fact 'for which, at times, men of both sides were to blame.'

"All the participants realize that this is just a first step and that the path toward full ecclesial communion will be long and difficult," he said.

"Ethical Disagreement as an Obstacle to Ecclesial Communion."

Thereafter all the bishops of the Syro-Malabar Church expressed their respect and ecclesial communion with the new major archbishop.

We here solemnly recommit ourselves and those we represent to the restoration of visible unity and full ecclesial communion.

Since high school, he has been a member of the ecclesial Communion and Liberation movement and was one of its initiators in Veneto.

Many points would need to be taken up in order to verify the truth, authenticity, pastoral charity, ecclesial communion, etc. in the Doctrinal Note you have put out.

Elected by the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church Holy Synod in 2005, ecclesial communion was confirmed by Pope Benedict XVI.

One is the principle that given ecclesial communion, that ecclesial communion is represented, is signified, is sacramentalized, is celebrated in, at the lord's table.

Dissent, in the form of carefully orchestrated protests and polemics carried on in the media, is opposed to ecclesial communion and to a correct understanding of the hierarchical constitution of the People of God.

For example, one could not receive the sacraments from a priest validly ordained within the Catholic Church who later defected from the Catholic Faith and now ministers within the Episcopalian ecclesial communion.

At its deepest level, ecclesial communion is maintained by the unity of believers in the apostolic faith and by the celebration and profession of this faith in the Eucharist, the sacrament of the Church's unity.

I want to express in Christian love the concern of the Catholic Church when new and conflicting interpretations of the Gospel result in fresh disagreements, especially where these touch ministry and strain ecclesial communion, above all at the Eucharist.

Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos, the president of the Pontifical Commission established for the purpose of facilitating full ecclesial communion of those associated with that Society, stated that the decree "opened the door for their return".

Nevertheless, Christ instituted the sacrament of Penance for all sinful members of his Church: above all for those who, since Baptism, have fallen into grave sin, and have thus lost their baptismal grace and wounded ecclesial communion.

“For almost 50 years, as you are well aware, there has been a formal theological dialogue which continues to seek a deeper understanding of the great heritage shared by Anglicans and Catholics, as well as the points of divergence which still impede fully restored ecclesial communion.

Not only that but the document goes on to say that "We urge Anglicans and Roman Catholics to explore together how the ministry of the Bishop of Rome might be offered and received in order to assist our Communions to grow towards full, ecclesial communion."

According to "Subsistit in" in Lumen Gentium, the Patriarch is a validly consecrated bishop in Roman ecclesiology, and there is merely an imperfect ecclesial communion between Constantinople and Rome, which exists nevertheless and which may be improved at some point in history.

The purpose of the Vatican's assessment, it said, "is to assist the LCWR in this important mission by promoting a vision of ecclesial communion founded on faith in Jesus Christ and the teachings of the church as faithfully taught through the ages under the guidance of the Magisterium."

Due in part to the re-establishment of official ties between the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia and the Moscow Patriarchate, the Orthodox Church of Greece (Holy Synod in Resistance) has broken ecclesial communion with ROCOR, but the converse has not happened.

The General Instruction of the Roman Missal states: "There follows the Rite of Peace, by which the Church entreats peace and unity for herself and for the whole human family, and the faithful express to each other their ecclesial communion and mutual charity before communicating in the Sacrament."