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 ...

In 2024 a Catholic deacon appealed his excommunication after leaving the church in the aftermath of his son's abuse case. He ...

A neatly framed announcement hanging above a bookcase in my study warns that anyone who takes or damages one of my books is subject to excommunication reserved to the Holy See. I purchased it in a ...

Every so often some Roman Catholic hierarch gets a bee in his beanie and makes noises about excommunicating some pro-choice policy maker. Ultra-orthodox Catholics are ecstatic, and even mainstream ...

VATICAN CITY – A Roman Catholic priest faces excommunication for attending a ceremony to ordain a woman in the United States, a Vatican official said Friday. The Rev. Roy Bourgeois joined a June ...

(KUTV) — Days before his probable excommunication, the man who wants to end children participating in one-on-one interviews with adults in the LDS Church remains committed to his cause. Houston ...

Although called different things in different denominations, there is a process of separating congregants from the body of their house of prayer. Most religions also offer offending members a way back ...

I asked Mary Ann Sorrentino if she is still — 36 years after it happened — excommunicated from the Catholic Church. It brought a chuckle. “Oh, once you’re out,” she said, “you’re out.” Clearly, at age ...