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Fr. Jose Mercau in 2014 as part of the Catholic Church sexual abuse cases scandal. [140] [141] Samantha Hudson, a Spanish drag artist, was excommunicated in 2015 by the bishop of Mallorca for a controversial musical video about the oppression the LGBTQ+ community faces due to the Catholic Church. The video was a school project, she was 15 years ...
Critics see the church's position on the ordination of women as a sign that women are not equal to men in the Catholic Church, though the church rejects this inference. [7] Pope Francis organized a Study Commission on the Women's Diaconate to review and study the history of women's service to the church, such as that of deaconesses .
Josemaría Escrivá had a Jesuit priest as a spiritual director (Fr. Sánchez) at the time that he founded Opus Dei (1928ff.). [22] As a result, he apparently based some of the practices of Opus Dei on the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus, [23] such as: required manifestation of conscience to a superior, seeking prestigious people for membership, a military-style hierarchical authority ...
Emails obtained by New York Times and Associated Press reveal extent of Saints' aid in Catholic church's response to sex-abuse scandal from 2018-2019.
A cardinal is a Roman Catholic priest, deacon, or bishop entitled to vote in a papal election. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals . Excommunication—literally, the denial of communion —usually means that a person is barred from participating in the Sacraments or holding ecclesiastical office .
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Abbe Beauvais, who served as the SSPX priest and pastor of Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet from 2003 to 2014, publicly praises Catholic Rexist Party founder and Waffen-SS officer Leon Degrelle. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] Leon Degrelle had a lengthy post-war career in Spain under Francisco Franco where he was allowed to promote Nazi ideology, Catholic integrism ...
The Bad Popes is a 1969 book by E. R. Chamberlin that documents the lives of eight of the most controversial popes (papal years in parentheses): . Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.