Excommunication, like revenge, is best served cold. Mine was-cold and quick on a clear autumn day.Excommunication! The word resonates like the bell of a gothic cathedral and seems as anachronistic as a rank of grinning gargoyles, as rebel monks, warrior popes, or heretics burning in a town square.Excommunication, one would have suppose, is a rite that had been relegated long ago to a footnote beyond the margins of modern life, a practice outdated...