The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. "A person who procures a completed abortion incurs excommunication latae sententiae ," 77 "by the ...

Pope Francis, head of the worldwide Catholic Church, recently excommunicated Carlo Maria Viganò, a virulently anti-LGBTQ+ U.S ...

The Catholic sisters are trying to raise funds after they were told to vacate their convent. Prior to that they had joined a ...

A trio of ex-communicated Poor Clares plan to open Spain’s first “cloistered” restaurant, funded by the sale of gold ingots.

A priest was excommunicated from a parish in Livorno in January last year for calling Pope Francis a “usurper” in a New Year’s Eve homily, which marked the first anniversary of the death of the pope’s ...

An Italian priest has been excommunicated from the Catholic Church for saying Pope Francis is not the real pope. Father Natale Santonocito, 61, parish priest of the San Cesareo Church south-east ...

Father Natale Santonocito is the latest priest to question Pope Francis’s legitimacy and be excommunicated as a result - Tiziana Fabi /AFP ...

A proposed law in Washington state would require priests to violate Catholic Church law by breaking the seal of confession.

Former President Joe Biden, who is Catholic, joined a historically black Freemason lodge just one day before he left the presidency, an offense punishable by excommunication in the Church.

Nevertheless, the Catholic Church held fast to its opposition ... To interfere with God's will was a mortal sin and grounds for excommunication. The Purpose of Intercourse For the Vatican ...

Colombian Catholic groups have ... patroness of our church, mother of God, the example of woman and mother of all men,” Amador argued. Excommunication means excluding a person from a religious ...