Why excommunicate people? Is this not a strange holdover from the medieval Church? Excommunication is a punitive device on the part of the Church and is more than merely denying holy Communion. It ...

Excommunication is widely misunderstood. Probably the most common misunderstanding is thinking that it means you can’t go to Communion. That is part of excommunication, but only a part. Another common ...

Many people believe that excommunication is the Catholic Church's equivalent of capital punishment — the worst punishment that the church can impose on a believer. Some even see it as the earthly ...

A Catholic church in Northern Kentucky faces an uncertain future after the Vatican declared this weekend that its priests are part of a "schismatic" Catholic movement. Our Lady of the Assumption in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A decades-long rupture inside the Catholic Church is approaching a decisive new flash point as the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), a ...

ST. MARYS, Kan. - The prayers were in Latin. The women and girls wore veils. And yet, as they knelt and accepted Communion on a blazing prairie summer day, the dozens of faithful Catholics were ...

The Ecclesiastical Court of the Archbishopric of Burgos in Spain has formally accused the Poor Clare nuns of the Monastery of Belorado with schism, launching proceedings that could soon result in the ...

Well, the click-bait headline worked, as they typically do. Gotcha. First of all, let me make it plain that I’m saddened by excommunications. I don’t, as one very small pod of my somewhat unhinged ...

Rules are rules, and when it comes to breaking communion with Rome, canon law leaves little room for maneuver. The Bishop of ...

(RNS) — Many people believe that excommunication is the Catholic Church’s equivalent of capital punishment — the worst punishment that the church can impose on a believer. Some even see it as the ...