The Justice Department's lawsuit backed the Catholic leaders in a legal filing on Monday, arguing the law "unlawfully targets clergy and, specifically, Catholic priests" and "directly interferes with ...

South Korea's Methodist Church has excommunicated a pastor for advocating gay rights, according to a church verdict obtained Tuesday by AFP.Nearly a ...

2006-07-01 04:00:00 PDT Rome-- Scientists who engage in stem cell research using human embryos should be subject to excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church, according to a senior Vatican ...

The Rev. Roy Bourgeois, the missionary priest from Lutcher who has devoted his career to opposing U.S. policy in Latin America, appears to be on the brink of excommunication from the Catholic ...

Pope Francis, who has returned to some duties after a five-week stay in hospital with severe double pneumonia, decided to skip a formal meeting with US vice president JD Vance, opting to send his ...

A nun is "automatically excommunicated" (and reassigned) because she was part of a medical ethics committee that concluded that a woman had to have an abortion or risk her own death. I always ...