Excommunication is not simply a relic of medieval Christianity — it remains an important instrument through which the ...

The Vatican has clarified who is affected by Pope Leo's SSPX excommunications and how Catholics can return to full communion.

More than half a million Christians who are part of a conservative Catholic splinter sect, the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A decades-long rupture inside the Catholic Church is approaching a ...

The excommunication of Baruch Spinoza, the philosopher who revolutionized modern thought, remains one of history’s greatest mysteries. Presented through a special collaboration between @docu.nation ...

Baruch Spinoza was an important 17th-century philosopher who argued that God and Nature are one and the same, a radical idea that paved the way to modern secular thought. In 1656, Spinoza was ...

Archbishop Georgios on Friday defended the synod’s handling of former Paphos bishop Tychikos and warned that further disciplinary action, including excommunication, could be imposed on defrocked monks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rebel Catholic group under the threat of excommunication for disobedience to Pope Leo has told the Vatican its members wish to ...

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican on Wednesday urged a breakaway Catholic group dedicated to the old Latin mass to cancel plans to ordain new bishops without consent from Pope Leo, warning the action would ...

Following its illicit consecrations in 1988, John Paul II said ‘formal adherence to the schism constitutes a grave offence against God and entails the excommunication established under Church law’.