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.

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 group of Roman Catholic nuns who were excommunicated last May are planning to open Spain’s first “cloistered” restaurant in the town of Arriondas, in the small and mountainous northern region of ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Excommunicated traditionalist Bishop Richard N. Williamson died Jan. 29 in a hospital in Margate, England, at the age of 84 after suffering a brain hemorrhage. The bishop's death ...

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 ...

The nuns’ spokesperson said the funding for the restaurant came from the sale of gold ingots and gold coins from North America. A trio of ex-communicated Poor Clares plan to open Spain’s first ...

So it involves a kind of conscious personal retreat. In the book, I use the term “excommunication.” By communicating less, you may discover you’re able to live a richer, more fulfilling life.

The Vatican takes a dim view of Freemasonry, and Catholics who join the fraternal order face excommunication. Biden was inducted into the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge in South Carolina on ...

As Frieze Los Angeles shines a spotlight on art in the city, one community, long facing institutional apathy, calls for marking its memories in the public mind. By Sam Lubell Christie’s, which ...