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 ...

Leaders of the Roman Catholic Church have been chosen at the Vatican in private gatherings known as conclaves or precisely ...

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

While the new order did not explicitly name Freemasonry, it maintained excommunication as a potential punishment for ... the document was revised to state that Catholic politicians have a "special ...

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 ...