Excommunication

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Under Vatican Ruling, Abortion Triggers Automatic Excommunication

Ignorance of the law, compulsion, or impaired faculties are allowable excuses in determining excommunication.

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Pro-Choice and Pro-Church

Why I choose to fight for abortion rights from within the Catholic Church--and why I'm not worried about excommunication threats

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Time to Excommunicate

Catholics who advocate legal abortion or otherwise defy church teaching shouldn't call themselves Catholics

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'A Topic Deeply Buried'

'Latter Days' director C. Jay Cox speaks to Beliefnet about his film and Mormonism's stance on homosexuality.

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The Roman Catholic Church's Official Teaching on Abortion

Excerpted from the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

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Pope Stresses Opposition to Abortion

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Report: Spanish Bishops to Excommunicate Terrorists

A Spanish newspaper reports bishops plan to excommunicate a Basque separatist group.

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What Catholics Believe

Central tenets of this faith, based on the questions in the Belief-O-Matic quiz.

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St. Cyprian (d. 258)

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