Catholic outrage over the Trump administration's Iran rhetoric intensified Tuesday after a powerful message from Pope Leo ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Read full article: Christopher Preciado capital murder trial reaches into its second week Jose Juan Nagera, 38, was booked into the Bexar County Adult Detention Center on Sunday, March 22, 2026, jail ...

ST. LOUIS — What began as a property dispute between the Archdiocese of St. Louis and an ethnic parish has led to excommunication. In a column written in the Dec. 16 issue of the archdiocesan ...

Ann Stoltzfus Taylor spent much of her childhood growing up Amish on a farm near Intercourse. All of her relatives were Amish, her friends were Amish and she spent many of her days in an Amish ...

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. “Herefore, ...

(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 ...