The Explainer: Excommunication is not the church’s equivalent of capital punishment
Amid calls for priest who abuse children to be excommunicated, US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks at the concept of excommunication within the Catholic Church…
Retired US Catholic bishop gets married after bid to leave priesthood denied
Albany, New York, USAP An 84-year-old retired Catholic Bishop of Albany, who has been accused of sexual abuse and has unsuccessfully sought to be removed from the priesthood, said this week that he recently married a woman in a civil ceremony. Emeritus Bishop Howard Hubbard made the surprise announcement on Tuesday during a tumultuous time […]
Anti-abortion priest Pavone defrocked for blasphemous posts
Vatican CityAP The Vatican has defrocked an anti-abortion US priest, Frank Pavone, for what it said were “blasphemous communications on social media” as well as “persistent disobedience” of his bishop who repeatedly told him to stop his partisan activism for Donald Trump. A letter to US bishops from the Vatican ambassador to the US, Archbishop […]