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 ...

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.

Although its origins stretch back to the 15th century, modern Freemasonry developed in Britain in the early 1700s and quickly grew into ... banning membership in organizations that "plot against the ...

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

A statement from the diocese said: “Having ascertained the culpability of the offender and finding the dissemination of such statements incompatible with the exercise of sacred ministry, in the name ...

Reflecting on the growth of the Church in Chile, the 85-year-old González said he tried to imagine how the Church would look 20 years after his mission in the early 1960s. “The reality far surpassed ...

At that point, the sisters had been recently excommunicated by the Holy See for refusing to recognize the leadership of the pope in Rome. As a result, said Iceta, they cannot continue living in ...