Interdict vs. Papal — What's the Difference?

In Catholic canon law, an interdict () is an ecclesiastical censure, or ban that prohibits persons, certain active Church individuals or groups from participating in certain rites, or that the rites and services of the church are banished from having validity in certain territories for a limited or extended time.

Of, relating to, or issued by a pope

To prohibit (an action or thing) or forbid (someone) to do something, especially by legal or ecclesiastical order.

Of or relating to the Roman Catholic Church.

To cut or destroy (a line of communication) by firepower so as to halt an enemy's advance.

Having to do with the pope or the papacy.

To confront and halt the activities, advance, or entry of

Of or pertaining to the pope of Rome; proceeding from the pope; ordered or pronounced by the pope; as, papal jurisdiction; a papal edict; the papal benediction.

An authoritative prohibition, especially by court order.

Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church.

Roman Catholic Church An ecclesiastical censure that bars an individual, members of a given group, or inhabitants of a given district from participation in most sacraments.

Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles;

A papal decree prohibiting the administration of the sacraments from a political entity under the power of a single person (e.g., a king or an oligarchy with similar powers). Extreme unction/Anointing of the Sick is excepted.

An injunction.

To exclude (someone or somewhere) from participation in church services; to place under a religious interdict.

(transitive) To forbid (an action or thing) by formal or legal sanction.

(transitive) To forbid (someone) from doing something.

To impede (an enemy); to interrupt or destroy (enemy communications, supply lines etc).

To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations.

To lay under an interdict; to cut off from the enjoyment of religious privileges, as a city, a church, an individual.

A prohibitory order or decree; a prohibition.

A prohibition of the pope, by which the clergy or laymen are restrained from performing, or from attending, divine service, or from administering the offices or enjoying the privileges of the church.

An order of the court of session, having the like purpose and effect with a writ of injunction out of chancery in England and America.

An ecclesiastical censure by the Roman Catholic Church withdrawing certain sacraments and Christian burial from a person or all persons in a particular district

A court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity

Destroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of communication

Command against;