Articles on this issue "excommunication"
The Pontifical Academy for Life president is lamenting the recently aborted Brazilian twins of a nine-year-old girl, and is calling the consequent excommunication of those who cooperated in it …
read moreThree leaders of a former St. Louis parish who incurred excommunication for hiring a suspended priest have been reconciled with the Church. According to a statement last week from the …
read moreA decision by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith confirmed an earlier declaration from the St. Louis archbishop that the board of directors of the St. Stanislaus Kostka Corporation …
read moreSix women religious were excommunicated in Arkansas for their involvement in the schismatic association Army of Mary, based in Quebec. The diocesan newspaper The Arkansas Catholic said that it …
read moreCertain members of the Community of the Lady of All Nations, a movement commonly known as the Army of Mary, have incurred excommunication. The Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith issued …
read moreCardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor recalled long-standing Church teaching on sin and Communion and called politicians to educate themselves about the Catholic position on life issues. In a …
read moreBishop Thomas Tobin blasted Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani in the Rhode Island Catholic newspaper, calling the former New York mayor's position on abortion "pathetic and …
read moreEven before a 9-year-old rape victim in Nicaragua underwent an abortion, the Holy See offered help to protect all the lives involved in the case. In a letter, a Vatican official asked that …
read moreHere is the decree of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on the attempted ordination to the priesthood of some Catholic women, last June 29. * * * DECREE OF THE CONGREGATION FOR …
read moreThe Holy See published a decree confirming the excommunication of a group of women who participated in a mock priestly ordination last June. The document of the Congregation for the Doctrine …
read moreSeven women who took part June 29 in Austria in a simulated priestly ordination were officially excommunicated at midnight Monday. That is when a deadline set by the Vatican expired. The …
read moreHere is the "monitum," or warning, published by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, following the mock ordination in Austria of seven Catholic women. * * * On June 29, 2002, Romulo …
read moreThe Holy See officially warned the seven women involved in a mock priestly ordination that they will be excommunicated unless they admit that the ceremony was invalid and express their …
read moreThe Pastoral Care Commission of the Lima Archdiocese has published a document on abortion, and the sacramental and pastoral challenges it poses. The text, distributed at the request of …
read moreArchbishop Emmanuel Milingo broke his weeks-old silence following his meeting with John Paul II and confirmed his desire to return to the Catholic Church. He also expressed the wish to meet …
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