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Peru bishop wants excommunication for abuse scandals, not just defrocking
- Mar 25, 2019
Bishop Kay Schmalhausen of Ayaviri, Peru believes current punishments for both the crime of clerical sexual abuse (usually expulsion from the clerical state) and the cover-up are ineffective, and suggested harsher penalties including excommunication.
Bishop in South Africa says abuser priests should be excommunicated
- Nov 21, 2018
An archbishop in South Africa has suggested the Church’s law system should be amended to mandate the excommunication of priests who commit sexual abuse.
Lincoln bishop to lift excommunication ban on 5 women
- Jan 31, 2018
Five Catholic women who were excommunicated from the Diocese of Lincoln in the 1990s due to their membership in a group that pushes for changes in church policies pertaining to women could be allowed to fully participate in services again.
Excommunicating mobsters? Vatican eyes new legal doctrine
- Jun 18, 2017
The Catholic Church has produced many anti-mafia campaigners in Italy, some of whom have been killed for their efforts. And a few years ago a Calabrian archbishop proposed a 10-year moratorium on the naming of godfathers when children are baptized to break the “padrino” system that mobsters use to spread their influence over the next generation.
Why weren't all priests able to absolve the sin of abortion already?
- Oct 12, 2015
Q. I’m curious about the fact that to mark the Year of Mercy, Pope Francis will allow all priests to absolve the sin of abortion. Why isn’t that true already? If I had committed such a sin, then went to confession and found that the priest couldn’t forgive me, that
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